Analysis Of Texting And Suicide The Michelle Carter

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Meet Mehta
Wd4469
Prof. Cynthia Andrzejczyk
20174_ENGL_3003_07_01
15th October 2017
Texting and Suicide: The Michelle Carter
The two assigned readings, “Texting and Suicide: The Michelle Carter Trial” and “Elonis v United States: Protected Speech vs. Intent,” shares a connection despite being discreet in their own way. In the article “Texting and Suicide: The Michelle Carter Trial,” we saw how Michelle’s texts encouraged and urged her boyfriend to commit suicide. Michelle and Conrad Roy embraced texting as the only source of communication, despite living close to each other. Roy shared his profound desire to commit suicide. Unlike any other girlfriend who would get concerned soon after hearing this stochastic thought cropping up suddenly from her boyfriend, she urged Carter with unusual ways that he could try to kill himself.
To her defense, her lawyer argued that the change in drug altered her attitude from a caring girlfriend to a more aggressive personality toward Conrad Roy. Even the psychiatrist at Carter’s trial reached the same conclusion based on her medical reports that he had to agree to the defense’s claim. After prosecution and defense attorneys presented their case, it was up to Judge Moniz to ascertain whether Michelle
When everything took place, Carter was only 17 years old. She was a juvenile. As a juvenile one doesn’t have enough maturity to decide what is right or wrong.
Also, the psychiatrist based on his conclusion after examine Carter’s medical reports had to agree to lawyers claim that change of drug during her medication also affected her in a negative way and instead of being a caring girlfriend she turned into an aggressive one. Moreover, Roy first shared his intentions to commit suicide. It was not the case that Michelle unwillingly forced him to do so (Andrzejczyk

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