Get Back in the Truck
By Ruby Hawk
@RubyHawk (99425)
Atlanta, Georgia
June 26, 2017 11:38am CST
I submitted a discussion several days about the girl who texted her boyfriend to get back in the truck just before he killed himself by carbon monoxide. I said I would update when I learned more.
Reading the paper today I saw that she was found guilty of manslaughter. I suppose sentencing will come later. The judge said when she said " Get back in the truck " she sealed her fate. It was only considered murder when he got out of the truck and she told him to get back in.
Her lawyer argued that it was freedom of speech and the girls rights were being violated but the judge didn't go for that. He repeated that it was freedom of speech until he got out of the truck and she told him to get back in the truck and finish the job.
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13 responses
@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
26 Jun 17
@RubyHawk No I doubt he would have..he wasn't in the proper state of mind to resist her commands and obeyed.
@popciclecold (35103)
• United States
26 Jun 17
You hear so much of this these days.
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@celticeagle (159058)
• Boise, Idaho
26 Jun 17
How was it freedom of speech? Some lawyers will stoop at anything to get their clients off. Why in the world she would tell/text him to get back in the car is just beyond my thinking. Did she think she was being compassionate by some stretch of her imagination?
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@marguicha (215441)
• Chile
26 Jun 17
I don´t get it. Were they near? Or was the texting from a distance?
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@marguicha (215441)
• Chile
26 Jun 17
@RubyHawk If someone sent me messages to go and kill myself, I would not do it but I would tell the police that someone is harrassing me.
@Courtlynn (66921)
• United States
26 Jun 17
Yeah i saw them do the verdict on tv. Glad. Now hipe she gets least 8 years.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
26 Jun 17
I'm so sick and tired of that Freedom of Speech crap infiltrating everything @RubyHawk . I'm glad the judge stood his ground.
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@JudyEv (325808)
• Rockingham, Australia
27 Jun 17
This seems a very sad case all round. She sounds pretty heartless.
@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
26 Jun 17
This is just so horrible. How can anyone let someone take over their mind? How could anyone tell someone to kill themselves?
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