Dharun Ravi was just found guilty of invasion of privacy and bias intimidation charges in the New Jersey Rutgers University webcam spying case, and guilty of some of the hate crimes charges. Ravi was acquitted of some of the more serious bias intimidation charges, including bias intimidation because of sexual intimidation against the man who had visited his gay roommate, Tyler Clementi in his room.
Ravi was accused of spying on his gay roommate, freshman Tyler Clementi, and sharing the video with others, after recording several intimate encounters of Clementi and another man, who was not identified publicly. In 2010, after learning of the spying, Clementi died by suicide, by jumping off the George Washington Bridge.
Ravi was charged not with the death of Clementi but with bias and invasion of privacy. Ravi faces up to ten years in prison.
Ravi faced a total of 15 charges, including four counts of hate crime bias intimidation, two counts of invasion of privacy, two counts of attempted invasion of privacy and six counts of witness tampering and hindering apprehension. He was found guilty of a majority of the charges.
Sentencing will be on May 21, 2012. Ravi is 20 years old, and faces 10 years in jail, and possible deportation as he is not a U.S. citizen. he will remain free on bail, having surrendered his passport.
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