Tag: Michelle Carter

Part VI: How Adult Society Betrayed Michelle Carter and Conrad Roy

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The story of Michelle Carter and Conrad Roy is not only a tragedy within itself and for all those involved with them, it is emblematic of the situation faced by millions of young people in the western world and increasingly around the entire planet. Final installment in the series.

Part V: The Michelle Carter Texting Trial Becomes a Witch Hunt

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In Parts I-IV, I discuss how theĀ DA succeededĀ in gaining the convictionĀ by means of highly emotional and at times misleading and untruthful manipulationsĀ in public and in the courtroom. Here I want to look more closely at the DAā€™s motivation andĀ otherĀ activities. Was it a personal vendetta?

Michelle Carter Part IV: Did She TellĀ Conrad toĀ ā€œGet back in the...

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There is noĀ text,Ā transcript or recording that demonstrates that Michelle ever said anything to Conrad about getting back in the truck to die. The DAā€™s entire caseĀ is basedĀ upon the ā€œconfessionā€ of an irrational girl on antidepressants whoĀ has beenĀ trying to communicate with her boyfriend in heaven via phone.

Michelle Carter Part III: DA Goes After Her Expert Witness to...

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The DAā€™s office asked the judge to stop me from any further writing about the Michelle Carter trial. This extraordinary motion, called prior restraint or pre-publication censorship, is a major assault on freedom of speech and freedom of the press. And there is a public health and safety reason for writing about this case.

Part II: Michelle Starts Prozac and Sees the Devil

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By 2011, anyone who read the scientific literature would have known that children cannot tolerate SSRIs and should not be given them. Neither Conrad nor Michelle seemed to have been warned about the common adverse effects (such as nightmares and compulsive suicidality) of the SSRI antidepressants they were on.

Michelle Carter: Did She Text Her Boyfriend to Death?

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Today a Massachusetts judge sentenced Michelle Carter for the crime of manslaughter in the suicide death of her boyfriend. I was the only psychiatric and medication expert on either side in this trial, and I testified on behalf of Michelle. Other than perhaps her lawyers, I probably know more about the true story than anyone else.