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_Published 2019-02-11. A Massachusetts woman who sent her suicidal boyfriend a barrage of text messages urging him to kill himself was jailed Monday on an involuntary manslaughter conviction nearly five years after he died in a truck filled with toxic gas._


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## Transcript

Are there any other issues you wish to bring to the courts attention today? Not today. Alright. Ms. Flynn are there any other issues that the commonwealth would wish to bring to the courts attention today? No thank you, your honor. Alright fine, thank you very much. Alright, as I indicated I have reviewed. [ UNKNOWN ] motion, [ COUGH ] that have read in detail. Once again your guy issue on August 3rd, 2017 relative to the state and the underlying rules, especially rule 31 of [ UNKNOWN ] with respect to that. Having done all of that and considered the arguments just presented to the court, the court now allows the Cuomo's motion to revoke the stay of sentence.

Mr. Cotter will now be taken into custody. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] This matter is adjourned, thank you very much. All rise. [ BLANK_AUDIO ]

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