Dharun Ravi, a Freshman at Rutgers University, Used a Web

question 85

Multiple Choice

Dharun Ravi, a freshman at Rutgers University, used a web cam to spy on his gay roommate’s dorm-room sexual encounters and streamed the video (Shallwani, 2012) . A few days later his roommate Tyler Clementi, a talented young musician, committed suicide. These events quickly became the subject of intense national interest and Ravi was charged under New Jersey law with hate crime, invasion of privacy, witness intimidation, and bias intimidation (but not murder) .
-What was the basis of the governments' case?

• A)twitter feeds, Facebook posts, text message, e-mails and other chatter
• B)eyewitness testimony and forensic evidence
• C)forensic evidence and confession
• D)eyewitness testimony and circumstantial evidence

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