Get Back in the Car

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In an earlier discussion I wrote about the girl who told her boyfriend to get back in the car when he was committing suicide. She had encouraged him to commit suicide for months and in this instance he was in his truck breathing in carbon monoxide when he changed his mind, stepped out of the truck and called the girl to tell her he was having second thoughts. She told him to get back in the truck and finish the job. And that's exactly what he did. I read in the Atlanta Journal today that Michelle Carter was convicted of of manslaughter and sentenced to two and a half years but she is required to serve only fifteen months with five years of probation. Prosecutors asked for a sentence of seven to twelve years. The judge granted the defenses motion that wlll keep Carter out of jail until her appeals are heard. The judge said: All she had to do was say , Get out of the truck, and none of us would be here right now. He said her words constituted waton and reckless conduct.