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"Bullying, Suicide, Punishment"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this interesting and very effective piece in today's New York Times discussing the sad cybercrime case that emerged from Rutgers University this week.  Here are snippets: Tyler Clementi may have died from exposure in cyberspace.  His roommate and another student, according to police, viewed Mr. Clementi?s intimate encounter with another man on a Webcam and streamed it onto the Internet.  Mr. Clementi, an 18-year-old violinist in his freshman year at Rutgers University, jumped off of the George Washington Bridge, and now the two face serious criminal charges, including invasion of privacy. The prosecutor in the case has also said that he will investigate bringing bias charges, based on Mr. Clementi?s sexual orientation, which could raise the punishment to 10 years in prison from 5...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 03, 2010 (boomark / email).