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| Dharun Ravi's trial ends in the US |
| Dharun Ravi's trial ends in the US
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 14-March-2012
3:14:1 AM |
| A former US university student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate is a kid, not a criminal, his lawyer said in closing arguments Tuesday.
Steven Altman said the Indian-born Dharun Ravi was surprised to turn on his webcam and see his Rutgers University roommate in an intimate situation with another man. Altman emphasized that there was no recording, no broadcast and no YouTube video of the encounter.
The roommate, Tyler Clementi, committed suicide in September 2010, days after the alleged spying.
Ravi faces 15 criminal counts, including invasion of privacy and bias intimidation. He could be sentenced to 10 years in prison if convicted of the most serious of them.
Altman said Ravi was not acting out of hatred of his roommate or gays in general.
"If there's hate in Dharun's heart, if there's ugliness in Dharun's heart, where is information and evidence to support it?" he asked the jurors.
As the prosecution began its closing arguments later in the day, Julia McClure told jurors there's abundant proof that Ravi had a problem with Clementi being gay, telling friends his roommate was gay almost as soon as he learned who his roommate would be.
"There wasn't one thing about the defendant's actions that were good-natured," McClure said.
Jurors are expected to start deliberating by Wednesday.
Ravi did not testify, though jurors did see video of a statement he gave to police.
There's no dispute that Ravi saw a brief snippet of video streamed live from his webcam in the Rutgers dormitory room he shared with Clementi to the laptop of a friend in her dorm room on Sept. 19, 2010.
The friend, Molly Wei, said Clementi and his guest - identified in the trial only by the initials MB - were fully clothed and kissing at the time.
Ravi posted a Twitter message that night that concluded: "I saw him making out with a dude. Yay."
Two days after the first incident, Clementi asked for the room alone again.
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