NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — A jury will hear about a Rutgers University student’s request for a room change days before he committed suicide — but not that he told university officials his roommate used a webcam to spy on him.
The issue came up Monday in the trial of Dharun Ravi ((DAHR’-uhn RAH’-vee), who is charged with invasion of privacy, bias intimidation and other crimes.
A judge said his roommate, Tyler Clementi’s, online request for a single room can be presented to jurors. But they won’t hear that Clementi also wrote that Ravi used a webcam to spy on him.
Clementi jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge days after the alleged spying in September 2010.
