Roommate of Rutgers student who committed suicide pleads not guilty - CNN.com - 0 views
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Defense attorneys entered a not guilty plea Monday for the roommate of the Rutgers University student who committed suicide following a candid online broadcast of his sexual encounter with another man, prosecutors say.
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Adam Mazurek on 24 May 11This is horrible. Why would someone stream live something that would hurt the people that were involved? I feel sad for the student who committed suicide
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Dharun Ravi, 19, is charged with streaming the footage of his roommate, Tyler Clementi, 18, engaging in a physical relationship with another man in their shared dormitory last September.
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Clementi later killed himself, jumping from the George Washington Bridge between New York and New Jersey.
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Ravi faces a 15-count indictment of hate crime charges involving invasion of privacy and evidence tampering after prosecutors say he tried to stage a cover-up, deleting the previous Twitter post and replacing it with another intended to mislead investigators as well as asking witnesses not to testify against him.
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A second student charged, Molly Wei, 19, pled not guilty earlier this month in two counts of invasion of privacy.
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The case exposed the issue of bullying on school campuses and has fed anti-bullying efforts across the nation.
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A college student committed suicide after he found out that his sexual encounter with another man was streamed live on Twitter for people to watch. Defense attorneys have entered a not guilty plea for the roommate of the student who committed suicide. The man who streamed the sexual encounter live on Twitter was charged with 15 hate crimes. Another person was charged too, but she plead not guilty.