{"id":931,"date":"2016-07-01T16:16:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T20:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.massachusettscriminaldefenselawyerblog.com\/?p=931"},"modified":"2016-07-01T16:16:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T20:16:43","slug":"teen-stand-trial-manslaughter-encouraging-suicide-text-messages-phone-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/teen-stand-trial-manslaughter-encouraging-suicide-text-messages-phone-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen to stand trial for Manslaughter for encouraging suicide through text messages and phone calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts SJC rule on July 1, 2016 that a juvenile can be required to stand trial as an adult for involuntary manslaughter in a case that has drawn national attention, as the juvenile defendant is charged with encouraging another juvenile to commit suicide through text messages. \u00a0Text messages were a major portion of the evidence presented to the grand jury.<\/p>\n<p>The SJC outlined the facts presented to the grand jury.\u00a0 The grand jury heard evidence that the defendant knew that her boyfriend at the time had a history of mental illness, prior suicie attempts and the court found that many conversations during the time period concerned suicide and the defendant doing the following according to the court, encouraging the victim to commit suicide, chastising him for not doing it, instructing him how and when to do it as well as assuaging his concerns over taking his own life.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant was alleged to have spoken to the victim while he was in the act of committing suicide and sent a text message to another friend saying that she told him to get back into the truck.\u00a0The SJC further recounted evidence that the defendant understood her role in the victim\u2019s death by trying to delete text message evidence and told another friend that she could have prevented his death.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/teen-stand-trial-manslaughter-encouraging-suicide-text-messages-phone-calls\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Teen to stand trial for Manslaughter for encouraging suicide through text messages and phone calls\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts SJC rule on July 1, 2016 that a juvenile can be required to stand trial as an adult for involuntary manslaughter in a case that has drawn national attention, as the juvenile defendant is charged with encouraging another juvenile to commit suicide through text messages. \u00a0Text messages were a major portion of the [&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-931","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>Teen to stand trial for Manslaughter for encouraging suicide through text messages and phone calls &#8212; 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