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Slate: Victim Who Committed Suicide in High School Bullying Case Had History of Mental Issues

Source: ABA Journal Top Stories
A basic principle law students are taught in first-year torts class is that defendants who happen to injure a fragile plaintiff can’t point to the victim’s weakness to excuse their own negligence. And the same principle applies in criminal cases, a prosecutor in a high-profile Massachusetts student-bullying case tells the Boston Globe. Responding to an article in Slate that says Phoebe Prince had a history of mental health issues before the 15-year-old committed suicide by hanging herself early this year, prosecutor Elizabeth Scheibel says any “internal struggles’’ Prince suffered don’t negate her criminal case. It is being brought against five…
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