![]() ![]() He also struck from evidence the details of Clementi's communications to university officials in which he asked for a room change because of Ravi's spy cam activity. McClure's position was weakened by Judge Glenn Berman who discouraged any mention during the trial that Clementi had jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge in the early morning hours of September 23 after discovering Ravi's web cam spying and Twitter posts about Clementi's relationship. She said Ravi's preoccupation with Clementi's sexual orientation "drove his escalating and deliberative acts." Middlesex County Prosecutor Julie McClure portrayed Ravi as a person who expressed to his friends discomfort with having a gay roommate and who deliberately set up his web cam to invade Clementi's privacy and ridicule his being gay. Ravi and Clementi were both in their first year at Rutgers University in September 2010 when Ravi set up his computer web cam to capture images of Clementi having intimate relations with M.B. ![]() ![]() The guilty charges could also result in Ravi, who is on a student visa to study here, being deported.ĭuring the two-week trial, Ravi's chief attorney, Steve Altman, repeatedly characterized Ravi's actions with the web cam as the sort of foolish prank one should expect from an 18-year-old college student. Ravi faces up to 10 years in prison for the convictions. The jury found Ravi not guilty in relation to charges as they affected Clementi's male date, identified in court only as "M.B." The jury also found Ravi guilty of a number of other charges, including invasion of privacy and witness tampering. This article shared 6569 times since Fri Mar 16, 2012Ī jury in New Jersey has found Rutgers student Dharun Ravi guilty of a hate crime against his gay roommate, Tyler Clementi, for using a web cam to spy on Clementi's intimate encounters with another man. ![]()
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