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Will guilty verdict in teen texting suicide case lead to new laws on end-of-life issues?

  • Written by David Rossman, Professor of Law, Boston University
imageMichelle Carter after being found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.AP/ Glenn C. Silva

In Massachusetts, a 17-year-old girl named Michelle Carter repeatedly urged her boyfriend, who had a history of mental illness, to kill himself. And then, he did.

As Conrad Roy III sat in his truck in 2014 and was overcome by carbon monoxide, he had second...

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