Former Rutgers student convicted in webcam case

A former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate’s love life has been convicted of bias intimidation and invasion of privacy in a case that exploded into the headlines when the victim of the snooping committed suicide.

Twenty-year-old Dharun Ravi could face 10 years in prison when he’s sentenced. He shook his head slightly after the verdicts were read.

A jury found that he used a webcam to spy on roommate Tyler Clementi and that he did it — and told others about it — because of a bias against gays.

 

Clementi jumped to his death from New York’s George Washington Bridge days after the spying in September 2010.

The Star-Ledger has the full breakdown of which counts Ravi has been convicted and acquitted of.