PROVO, Utah (AP) â A Utah judge is deciding whether an 18-year-old accused of filming a high school classmate's suicide will stand trial for murder.
Prosecutors say that while Tyerell Przybycien didn't wield a murder weapon, he's responsible for the death of a troubled girl who he pushed into taking her own life.
Defense attorneys, though, contend the 16-year-old girl made her own choice, and while Przybycien's role wasn't commendable it wasn't murder.
Judge James Brady is expected to rule in the coming days.
Przybycien is charged with buying the rope and helping her tie a noose, then recording a 10-minute cellphone video of her death on May 6.
Prosecutors say he'd previously told a friend that helping her would be "like getting away with murder."
