No jail time for suicide abbetor

Massachusetts Judge Lawrence Moniz tipped the scales of justice upside down in finding Michelle Carter guilty of involuntary manslaughter for encouraging her severely depressed teenage friend Conrad Roy III to commit suicide three years ago. He and Carter exchanged thousands of text messages over time; with Carter first trying to get Roy to embrace life, then acquiescing to his demand to die. "I'm trying my best to dig you out" to which Roy replied "I WANT TO DIE". Carter eventually embraced Roy's plan saying "If this is the only way you think you'll be happy, Heaven will welcome you with open arms." That sure doesn't sound like involuntary manslaughter to me...actually sounds more compassionate than criminal. Both Carter and Roy were extremely troubled teens; Carter just 17 at the time. She needs psychological help, not a cage for up to 20 years the legally confused and heartless judge can impose. Let's hope the appeals court has more sense than Judge Moniz He's the one who should be sentenced...to remedial judicial thinking.