CASE 9.1
Dharun Ravi, a freshman at Rutgers University, used a webcam to spy on his gay roommate's dorm-room sexual encounters and streamed the video (Shallwani, 2012; Slane, 2015). A few days later, his roommate Tyler Clementi, a talented young musician, committed suicide. These events quickly became the subject of intense national interest, and Ravi was charged under New Jersey law with hate crime, invasion of privacy, witness intimidation, and bias intimidation (but not murder).
What was the basis of the government's case?
A. Twitter feeds, Facebook posts, text messages, emails, and other chatter
B. eyewitness testimony and forensic evidence
C. forensic evidence and confession
D. eyewitness testimony and circumstantial evidence
Answer: A
You might also like to view...
The filtering process that involves an individual's prejudices and various other emotions that edit what he or she will remember and what will be forgotten is called ________
A) interference B) amnesia C) repression D) bias E) distortion
Which of the following examples would be considered an unacceptable detention for a Terry stop?
A) Officers make a suspect wait 20 minutes at an airport for a drug dog. B) An officer makes three suspects wait for 10 minutes while he calls for backup. C) A traffic officer makes a suspect wait 3 hours in his vehicle for a drug dog. D) After refusing an x-ray, officers make a suspected drug mule wait 12 hours before he passes cocaine-filled balloons.
Aftermath: Violence and Remaking of the Self by _________________ recounts the difficult times rape victims have recovering from the ordeal
a. Libby Reed b. Jessica Taylor c. Susan Brison d. Christine Estep
Local ordinances allow for routine inspections to enforce building codes and other regulations. The Supreme Court has recognized these ____________ searches as exceptions to normal Fourth Amendment protections
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word