Earlier in 2015, Attorney Joseph Cataldo had asked the state to dismiss the case against his client

They communicated mostly through text messages and phone calls, and it was Carter who urged Roy to seek professional help, Cataldo said.
“Conrad Roy was on this path to take his own life for years,” he said. “It was Conrad Roy’s idea to take his own life, it was not Michelle Carter’s idea. This was a suicide, a sad and tragic suicide, but not a homicide.”
Carter had her own mental health struggles and was taking medications that may have clouded her judgment, he said.
The case is being tried without a jury in juvenile court because Carter was 17 when Roy killed himself. Court proceedings are open because she was charged as a juvenile offender, which makes her subject to adult punishment if convicted.
With the onus on prosecutors to prove that Carter’s encouragement resulted in his death, which would make Roy’s death homicide instead of suicide.
The trail of text messages presents a different challenge upholding the defense contention.
The pair exchanged hundreds of text messages for several days before Roy’s suicide.
In one notable text, she implied that he would be better off dead: “You’re finally going to be happy in heaven. No more pain. It’s okay to be scared and it’s normal. I mean, you’re about to die.”
They also texted early in the morning of July 12, 2014, hours before Roy’s suicide. In some of the exchanges, Carter appeared to be faulting Roy for delaying it.
“So I guess you aren’t gonna do it then, all that for nothing … I’m just so confused like you were so ready and determined,” she said.
When Roy said he wanted to go back to sleep, Carter suggested that “now” is the best time to do it because everyone was still sleeping.
“Just go somewhere in your truck. And no one’s really out right now because it’s an awkward time,” she said.
In another text that same day, she kept pushing.
“I thought you wanted to do this. The time is right and you’re ready …  just do it babe,” she said.
She suggested that he take medication to fall asleep and allow the fumes to work.
She worried that he wouldn’t go through with it because the sun would soon be coming up.
She suggested that he go to an empty parking lot.
They texted throughout the day about the plans, about Roy’s doubts, and about Carter’s insistence that “the time is right” and that he was ready.

 The young couple – Michelle Carter and Conrad Roy

Roy had recently graduated high school and had been accepted to Fitchburg State University to study business, according to his mother, Lynn Roy
Conrad spent his last day on the beach with his mother and sisters.
he was texting Carter about his determination to kill himself, how best to do so and his fears that others could be hurt by the use of carbon monoxide, according to a court filing.
His mother testified about a series of text messages from Carter after his death, the night he died.
Carter wrote to Lynn Roy repeatedly, offering support, expressing love for Conrad and confidence that he was in a better place, and suggesting that she organize a memorial baseball tournament in his honor — while never mentioning the dozens of messages she sent to him encouraging him to kill himself, or the phone conversation they allegedly had while he was attempting to kill himself in his truck. The court had earlier ruled that Carter’s “virtual presence” at the time of the suicide and the “constant pressure” she had placed on Roy, who was in a delicate mental state, were enough proof for an involuntary manslaughter charge.
Carter faces up to 20 years in prison, if convicted