NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (Reuters) – A New Jersey jury on Wednesday ended its first day of deliberations without deciding whether a former Rutgers University student committed a hate crime when he used a webcam to spy on his college roommate kissing another man.

The roommate, Tyler Clementi, committed suicide days later and the case put a national spotlight on gay bullying.

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (Reuters) – Jury deliberations began on Wednesday in the gay bullying trial of a former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate’s sexual encounter with another man in the days before he committed suicide.

Terms like “Tweeting,” “IM” and “texting” are part of the evidence that the panel of 12 jurors must weigh to decide whether to convict Dharun Ravi of any of the 15 counts of invasion of privacy, witness tampering and bias intimidation, which is a hate crime.

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (Reuters) – A defense lawyer in closing arguments on Tuesday at the Rutgers University gay bullying trial said Dharun Ravi’s decision to spy on his roommate’s sexual encounter with another man should be excused as the immature behavior of a “typical 18-year-old kid” and not punished as a hate crime.

Steven Altman said Ravi had no bias against gays and, instead, childishly decided to use a webcam to covertly see dormmate Tyler Clementi’s tryst with an older man.

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (Reuters) – The defense wrapped up its case on Monday in the gay bullying trial of a former Rutgers student accused of spying on a sexual encounter between his roommate, who later committed suicide, and another man.

Dharun Ravi, 20, told a judge that he would not testify in his own defense at the trial, which now moves to closing arguments on Tuesday.

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (Reuters) – The defense for a former Rutgers University student accused of spying on the gay sexual encounter of his roommate, who later committed suicide, presented witnesses on Friday who said they never heard the 20-year-old make derogatory remarks about gays.

Dharun Ravi faces 15 counts of invasion of privacy, witness and evidence tampering and bias intimidation, which is a hate crime, in Middlesex County, New Jersey Court. If convicted, he is looking at the possibility of 10 years in prison.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Relatives of September 11 victims still confronted with the loss of their loved ones are fighting plans to place unidentified remains in a repository carved into the bedrock below the World Trade Center site.

The underground vault, already under construction, will house unidentified remains and be accessible only to staff of New York City’s chief medical examiner’s office, which will continue to attempt to identify the remains as technology improves.

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (Reuters) – The prosecution rested its case on Thursday against a former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to view the gay sexual encounter of his roommate who committed suicide a few days later.

The defense for Dharun Ravi, 20, was slated to present its side beginning on Friday before the jury in Middlesex County, New Jersey.

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (Reuters) – The man who had a gay sexual encounter with a Rutgers University student that a roommate saw via webcam made his first public appearance on Friday, telling jurors that he had noticed the webcam in the dorm room while in a “compromising” position.

The man, identified only as M.B. and named a victim in the case, was one of the last people to communicate with Tyler Clementi, 18, who killed himself on September 22, 2010, after learning his roommate Dharun Ravi secretly watched M.B. and Clementi kissing.

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (Reuters) – The man who had a gay sexual encounter with a Rutgers University student that a roommate saw by webcam made his first public appearance on Friday, telling jurors that he had noticed the webcam in the dorm room while in a “compromising” position.

The man, identified only as M.B. and named a victim in the case, was one of the last people to communicate with Tyler Clementi, 18, who killed himself on September 22, 2010, after learning his roommate Dharun Ravi covertly saw them kissing and appeared to encourage others to do so.

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (Reuters) – The mystery man whose homosexual tryst with Tyler Clementi is at the center of a privacy invasion trial prepared to testify as early as Thursday against the former Rutgers student accused of using a webcam to spy on them in a dorm room.

He was one of the last people to see Clementi, 18, who committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge on September 22, 2010, just days after learning his Rutgers University roommate Dharun Ravi, now 20, covertly saw them kissing and encouraged others to do so too.