The former Rutgers University student was sentenced to 30 days in prison for bias crimes after he spied on his roommate’s gay encounter in a case that drew national attention to bullying. (Lee Celano/Reuters)A new trial was ordered Friday for a former Rutgers University student whose roommate killed himself after being spied on kissing another man. [Dharun Ravi sentence in Rutgers webcam case renews hate-crime law debate]Clementi’s 2010 sexual encounter with another man was caught on a webcam by his roommate, Dharun Ravi and shared on the Internet in the early days of their freshman year. Two days later, Ravi alerted friends that another encounter was likely, but the camera did not work. Jane Clementi, mother of Tyler Clementi, looked at family photographs as husband Joseph Clementi, back left, father of Tyler Clementi, spoke to a reporter in their home in Ridgewood, N.J., in 2011.

Source: Washington Post September 09, 2016 23:51 UTC