{"id":729,"date":"2016-10-09T14:47:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T18:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=729"},"modified":"2016-10-09T16:05:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T20:05:24","slug":"taunton-ma-woman-wants-her-statements-to-police-kept-out-of-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/10\/09\/taunton-ma-woman-wants-her-statements-to-police-kept-out-of-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Taunton, MA Woman Wants Her Statements to Police Kept Out of Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers for Michelle Carter, 20,\u00a0who is accused of manslaughter, will argue that the jury at her manslaughter trial should not be allowed to hear about statements she made to police. \u00a0She is charged in the 2014 death of Conrad Roy III, 18 and\u00a0is reported to have\u00a0sent Roy\u00a0text messages encouraging him to commit suicide.<\/p>\n<p>A judge has scheduled a hearing for Friday on the request.<\/p>\n<p>Roy, dead from\u00a0carbon monoxide poisoning,\u00a0was found in his pickup truck in Fairhaven in\u00a0July 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Carter&#8217;s lawyer has argued that the texts are protected free speech and that she is not responsible for the\u00a0suicide. \u00a0The Supreme Court of\u00a0Massachusetts ruled that a grand jury had cause to indict Carter based on evidence suggesting she engaged in a &#8220;systematic campaign of coercion.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Lawyers for Michelle Carter, 20,\u00a0who is accused of manslaughter, will argue that the jury at her manslaughter trial should not be allowed to hear about statements she made to police. \u00a0She is charged in the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/10\/09\/taunton-ma-woman-wants-her-statements-to-police-kept-out-of-trial\/\" title=\"Taunton, MA Woman Wants Her Statements to Police Kept Out of Trial\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[343,339,342,338,340,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa","8":"tag-carbon-monoxide","9":"tag-conrad-roy-iii","10":"tag-massachusetts","11":"tag-michelle-carter","12":"tag-suicide","13":"tag-text-messages","14":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}