Carter was charged with involuntary manslaughter for sending numerous texts to her boyfriend, Roy, in which she allegedly pressured him to take his own life.
Carter and Roy met in 2012 and lived about 30 miles away from each other in MA.
On Wednesday, day three of the trial, friends of the then 17-year-old are scheduled to take the stand about their relationship to Carter.
"You need to do it, Conrad", one text from Carter read.
Defense attorney Joseph Cataldo said that the boy had tapped Carter to help him carry out his mission to commit suicide.
Prosecutor Maryclare Flynn said Carter sent 40 text messages to Roy urging him to kill himself. "I have all these flashback thoughts of when I was talking to him on the phone when he killed himself and I just think about hearing his cries and I just panic and have like panic attack from it, every time I see a vehicle alone in a parking lot i get freaking out and anxious".
Roy was sitting in his pickup in the parking lot of a store in July 2014 as the truck filled with carbon monoxide. "They know how sad you are, and they know that you are doing this to be happy and I think they will understand and accept it".
What does Roy's family say? "This is a suicide case", he said, "not a homicide". What prosecutors will have to prove this week is whether Carter's encouragement resulted in his death. They said that Roy and Carter both suffered from mental illness and that Carter is now undergoing counseling. "She put him in the auto that night". When he questioned her on the location of the tournament, she became upset and "wanted to make clear that she was getting credit" for organizing the event, Gammell testified Tuesday.
Carter faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
Carter waived her right to trial by jury on Monday, so the final decision will be up to a judge in a juvenile court, because she was a juvenile at the time of Roy's death.
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Daniel Medwed, a law and criminal justice professor at Northeastern University, told The Washington Post that Carter's text messages arguably encouraged Roy, but the case for manslaughter is weak.
Another gripping text comes from the day Roy died.
He claimed Carter also implored Roy to seek professional help but he turned down her advice and that the young woman, who was allegedly facing her own mental health issues at the time, was on anti-depressants, which may have clouded her judgment.
Flynn said that Carter even asked one of the Conrad's sisters if she could have some of his ashes after learning he had been cremated.
The couple met on holiday and lived apart, communicating mostly via phone.
Lynn Roy also testified that after her son's death, she received messages from Carter expressing sympathy but not mentioning any prior knowledge about suicidal plans.
Carter was indicted in 2015 and appealed, taking the case to the state's Supreme Court.
Legal experts are watching the trial closely because it could set a legal precedent on whether it is a crime to tell someone to commit suicide.
Medwed said choosing a bench trial over a jury trial is a savvy move on the defense's part.
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