Michelle Carter has been sentenced to serve 15 months in jail for causing the death of her boyfriend, Conrad Roy. But she will get to stay at home while she appeals her conviction. The ruling came as a surprise minutes after the judge in the case ordered that Carter be taken into custody immediately.
Judge Lawrence Moniz’s stay of his own sentence concluded a dramatic high-profile trial involving thousands of text messages between the two teenagers and a prosecution based on words Carter uttered in goading Roy to kill himself.