Wednesday, May 23, 2012

clementi appeal

A New Jersey jury on Friday returned a split verdict in the case of Dharun Ravi, a former Rutgers student accused of spying on his roommate Tyler Clementi, who later killed himself. Ravi was found guilty of some bias intimidation charges,

A New Jersey jury on Friday returned a split verdict in the case of Dharun Ravi, a former Rutgers student accused of spying on his roommate Tyler Clementi, who later killed himself. Ravi was found guilty of some bias intimidation charges,

Ravi was convicted on parts of all the 15 counts against him stemming from an incident in September 2010, when Ravi set up a webcam to spy on his roommate, Tyler Clementi, during a sexual encounter with another man. The other victim was not named in

A jury found 20-year-old Dharun Ravi guilty of having homophobic motivations for using a webcam to spy on his former Rutgers roommate, 18-year-old Tyler Clementi, who killed himself shortly after the incident.

19-year-old Dharun Ravi, the Rutgers student who spied on his gay roommate Tyler Clementi kissing a man shortly before Clementi committed suicide, was convicted of multiple charges of invasion of privacy today and bias