article_snippet.sent: Michelle Carter, 18, looked glum as Michelle Carter appeared in court in New Bedford on Thursday accused of encouraging the death of Conrad Roy III, who gassed himself in himself truck in Fairhaven last July.
article_snippet.sent: Bewildered': Michelle Carter, 18, seen here in court in New Bedford, Massachusetts, on Thursday, is said to be confused at being charged with involuntary manslaughter over the suicide of her friend, Conrad Roy II, 18, according to her lawyers, who claim her was attempting to help Roy .
article_snippet.sent: Michelle Carter was charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Conrad Roy III last July .
article_snippet.sent: Supportive: Parent's Gail and Michelle Carter have insisted Parent's Gail and David Carter daughter is innocent and had been left overwhelmed by Roy's suicidal talk . '
article_snippet.sent: Attorney Joseph Cataldo said outside juvenile court that juvenile court will prove Michelle Carter was actually trying to help Roy. '
article_snippet.sent: Carter, who was 17 at the time of Roy's suicide, was indicted on February 5 and arraigned on an involuntary manslaughter charge the next day in New Bedford Juvenile Court.
article_snippet.sent: Carter have insisted that Carter is innocent and had been left overwhelmed by Roy's suicidal talk.
highlights_snippet.sent: Michelle Carter, 18, appeared in New Bedford court Thursday over the involuntary manslaughter of Conrad Roy II, 18, who killed Roy last July .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Carter 'sent Roy a series of texts encouraging Roy to take Roy own life'
  Carter ' lawyers claim Carter ' is 'bewildered at the charges' and have asked for the case to be moved because the District Attorney is the victim's third cousin .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Her lawyers claim Carter ' was actually trying to help Roy .
  