{"id":1339,"date":"2017-06-12T15:13:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T19:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.massachusettscriminaldefenselawyerblog.com\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2017-06-12T15:13:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T19:13:41","slug":"involuntary-manslaughter-trial-michelle-carter-motion-dismiss-denied-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/involuntary-manslaughter-trial-michelle-carter-motion-dismiss-denied-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Involuntary Manslaughter trial of Michelle Carter Motion to Dismiss Denied by Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After prosecutors rested their arguments in the Michelle Carter case, Judge Lawrence Moniz \u00a0denied\u00a0the defenses\u00a0motion to declare her not guilty based on the evidence or lack therof.\u00a0\u00a0Carter, a young woman from Plainville Massachusetts is currently on trial for convincing her high school boyfriend to commit suicide in 2014; prosecutors arguing that Carter persuaded her boyfriend to take his own life,\u00a0an act that would not have been possible without the influence of his then-girlfriend Michelle Carter.<\/p>\n<p>The Judge did not give a reasoning in regards to the denial of the motion, but with the motion for required finding denied, the defense team will be putting on their own case. \u00a0A motion for required finding is a relatively easy hurdle for a prosecutor to satisfy as all of the evidence is viewed in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth. \u00a0It is only when viewing all of the evidence in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, and finding that no reasonable juror or judge in this case, could find the essential elements of the case proven that the motion be be allowed.<\/p>\n<p>Carter&#8217;s defense team argued that there is simply insufficient evidence that Michelle Carter actually caused her boyfriend to take his life; the defense has argued from the start of the trial that this is a suicide case.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/involuntary-manslaughter-trial-michelle-carter-motion-dismiss-denied-judge\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Involuntary Manslaughter trial of Michelle Carter Motion to Dismiss Denied by Judge\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After prosecutors rested their arguments in the Michelle Carter case, Judge Lawrence Moniz \u00a0denied\u00a0the defenses\u00a0motion to declare her not guilty based on the evidence or lack therof.\u00a0\u00a0Carter, a young woman from Plainville Massachusetts is currently on trial for convincing her high school boyfriend to commit suicide in 2014; prosecutors arguing that Carter persuaded her boyfriend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-trials"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Involuntary Manslaughter trial of Michelle Carter Motion to Dismiss Denied by Judge &#8212; 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