Evidence may not be enough to upgrade charges against Rutgers students

Dan82 · Oct 5, 2010

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/10/prosecutors_consider_upgrading.html

Though no final decision has been made, there may not be enough evidence in the Rutgers University internet voyeurism case to upgrade the charges to a hate crime, Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan said today.

Two Rutgers freshmen — Dharun Ravi, of Plainsboro, and Molly Wei, of West Windsor — are charged with invasion of privacy for allegedly using a secret webcam to watch classmate Tyler Clementi in a sexual encounter with another man in his dorm room on the Piscataway campus.

Clementi, 18, committed suicide a few days later by jumping off the George Washington Bridge. The Ridgewood teen’s death prompted gay-rights and anti-bullying groups to call for hate crime charges against Ravi and Wei.

Kaplan said investigators are reviewing the evidence and the law to determine whether they can upgrade the charges to a second-degree bias crime because Clementi was gay...

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Evidence may not be enough to upgrade charges against Rutgers students

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