She's out!

Here's news for those of us who watched the recent Hulu series, “The Girl from Plainville”...

Michelle Carter's probation is over.

Carter, also known as The Scariest-Looking Teenaged Girl In The Whole Wide World, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2017 for encouraging 18-year-old Conrad Roy, her occasional boyfriend, to commit suicide.

Coria Holland, Massachusetts Probation Service communications director, reports  that Carter’s probation ended on Aug. 1.

Carter was under special conditions of probation, and they have ended as well, meaning that she will now be able to profit directly or indirectly from her story, should she choose to.

Other conditions of her 15-month probation included having no contact with the family of Conrad Roy or witnesses, and following the recommendations of a mental health professional, following an ordered evaluation.

It was 2014 when Carter, of Plainfield, Massachusetts, 17 at the time, encouraged young Roy to get back in his truck, filled with carbon monoxide, to complete his threatened suicide. She was tried as a youthful offender.

In 2017, the judge in a bench trial found her guilty, holding that she caused Roy's  death. These communications between the two were done by text messages. The judge noted that she did not use the phone in her hand to notify Roy's family or the police that he was intent on suicide. She did, however, text a friend and say she told Roy to get back in the truck.

Carter was given a 15-month sentence in the Bristol County House of Correction in 2019, and released on good behavior in January 2020 after serving about a year.

In spite of her attorneys pleading that her texts to Roy were constitutionally protected free speech, the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court upheld her conviction, and the the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up the appeal in 2020.

The case created lanes of discussion all over, with some saying that her encouragement of the young man to prove his devotion to her by ending his life was reckless, illegal, and immoral, and countless television producers coming up with new ways to dramatize the events.

Will it surprise you if Michelle Carter winds up having a show on one of those cable stations most of us don't even know about?