A former Rutgers University student who was convicted of hate crimes for using a webcam to see a snippet of his roommate kissing another man is asking a judge to overturn the jury's verdict.
The former Rutgers University student convicted in the webcam spying case that ended in his gay roommate's suicide says he was insensitive, but not biased.
As much as I'm bothered by the guilty verdicts against Dharun Ravi regarding 'bias intimidation', I'm equally bothered by all the listeners who've called this radio station using words like 'joke' or 'prank' to characterize the spycam incident...
An alternate juror in the trial of a former Rutgers University student convicted in a webcam spying episode that ended in his gay roommate's suicide says he disagrees with the verdict.
A former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate's love life was convicted of invasion of privacy and anti-gay intimidation Friday in a case that exploded into the headlines when the victim threw himself to his death off a bridge.
Now that a jury has found Dharun Ravi guilty of a host of charges in the Rutgers webcam spy case – including invasion of privacy, bias intimidation, witness tampering and hindering arrest – experts say the legal implications could be very significant.
Tyler Clementi's father is reminding college students and children to be civil and tolerant after a jury delivered a verdict today in Dharun Ravi's Rutgers webcam trial.