>A complex case’s simple verdict: Ravi guilty on all counts in webcam spying trial
Published: Saturday, March 17, 2012, 8:15 AM Updated: Saturday, March 17, 2012, 8:22 AM
Star-Ledger Staff By Star-Ledger Staff
NEW BRUNSWICK — The deal was on the table months ago.
Plead guilty, prosecutors told Dharun Ravi, and you likely won’t go to prison.
Ravi, charged in a first-of-its-kind prosecution linking invasion of privacy to a hate crime, rebuffed the offer, opting to take his chances with a jury.
Today, in a New Brunswick courtroom filled to overflow, the 20-year-old Plainsboro man learned the consequence of his choice as a jury forewoman spoke his fate.
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