Gay Suicide Trial

India-born student Dharun Ravi, who had served a 20-day prison term for spying on his gay roommate who later committed suicide, won a major legal reprieve after a New Jersey appeals court threw out his conviction and ordered a new trial.

The distraught parents of Dharun Ravi who was sentenced for a month in prison for spying on his gay roommate, said that he has suffered "enough" while the mother of his roommate who committed suicide said that her family has never heard an apology from Dharun Ravi.

With Indian-origin student Dharun Ravi convicted in the webcam spying case, the family of his Rutgers roommate Tyler Clementi, who had committed suicide, say the case brought pain to many people and should serve as an example that others should be treated with respect.

A former Rutgers University student convicted on Friday in the webcam spying episode that ended in his gay roommate's suicide could be headed off to prison in a case experts say stands as a tragic lesson for young people about casual cruelties and unintended consequences in the Internet age.

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...

India-born student Dharun Ravi, who had served a 20-day prison term for spying on his gay roommate who later committed suicide, won a major legal reprieve after a New Jersey appeals court threw out his conviction and ordered a new trial.

The distraught parents of Dharun Ravi who was sentenced for a month in prison for spying on his gay roommate, said that he has suffered "enough" while the mother of his roommate who committed suicide said that her family has never heard an apology from Dharun Ravi.

With Indian-origin student Dharun Ravi convicted in the webcam spying case, the family of his Rutgers roommate Tyler Clementi, who had committed suicide, say the case brought pain to many people and should serve as an example that others should be treated with respect.

A former Rutgers University student convicted on Friday in the webcam spying episode that ended in his gay roommate's suicide could be headed off to prison in a case experts say stands as a tragic lesson for young people about casual cruelties and unintended consequences in the Internet age.

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...