The new high-powered defense team representing Michelle Carter argues that “words alone” can’t kill in their pitch to the state’s highest court — an appeal claiming her involuntary manslaughter conviction is unconstitutional and violates both state and federal law.“(T)his appeal presents novel questions of constitutional and criminal law,” Carter’s attorneys wrote in an appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court, filed Feb.

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