Former Rutgers Student Rejects Plea Deal

USA Today (12/9, Stanglin) reports that Dharun Ravi, the "former Rutgers student charged with using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate has rejected an offer for probation in exchange for admitting to bias and invasion of privacy," noting that Ravi "told a court in New Brunswick today that he would rather go to trial than accept the charges of bias. His 18-year-old roommate, Tyler Clementi, committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge in September only days after he found out that a webcam, operating remotely, had broadcast his intimate encounter with a man in his room."