ravi agrees with that.ee if the jury's going to think is this ravi's story? or is he parodying what the police is saying to him. >> and when he doesn't get what he wants, are you going to tell me the truth or lie. let's listen to more. >> you're deliberately lying to us now and telling us, i wasn't spying on my roommate. just watching my valuables. that's not going to work. that's an outright lie. >> i wanted to find out what was happening. >> he's by himself, no attorney present, but that is hitting on that one part of this case, that seems to be really, come on. >> it is and it's classic. always amazes me. nobody asks for an attorney. he's a college kid, admittedly, but he's an adult. he doesn't ask for an attorney. and the police officer is saying to him, hey, you are lying to us. and so ravi then is changing his story a little bit to get the approval of the police officer and by the way, this is classic police investigation. it goes on all the time. nothing illegal about this. this is how the police get

but the defense argued ravi was immature and there was no bias. clemente clemente's father joe says there is no excuse for this kind of behavior. >> when you see somebody doing something wrong, tell them "that's not right. stop it." you can make the world a better place. >> reporter: ravi faces up to ten ten years in prison and, scott, he's not an american citizen. he is here legally but he could be deported and i think they'll decide that in about six weeks. >> pelley: erin, it seems to me hate crimes usually involve threats or violence and neither seem to be the case here. >> reporter: scott, you're exactly right. i think that's what concern some people people who monitor hate crime legislation. they're concerned this opens the door to door to all kinds of prosecution for acts we don't think of as actually hate. >> pelley: erin, thank you very much. the cleanup continues in michigan a day after tornadoes swept through. three possible twisters hit the state with the town of dexter getting the worse of it. jim axelrod gives us a look at the damage

dharun ravi guilty on all counts. ravi never took the stand on his own behalf. defense used the police interrogation video to prove he meant no harm, highlighting the fact he never recorded clementi, nor did he put the encounter online. >> we go to a computer, we turn it on. at the corner of the screen we see -- we see someone's back. it was obvious that they were being intimate or whatever. so we closed it immediately and i just felt really uncomfortable and guilty that i saw that. >> reporter: ravi's defense argued he only turned on his camera because he didn't trust clementi's visitor and was worried about theft. >> the guy that walked in, like, the reason i was a little weirded out is because he came in. i said hey. and he didn't acknowledge me at all, he just sat on the bed. on tyler's bed and didn't say anything. so i left the room. i was kind of getting like a little creeped out and worried about what was happening, because i had other valuables in there. >> reporter: but prosecutors painted a very different picture, successfully arguing ravi targeted his

a jury convicted dharun ravi last week. his roommate, tyler clementi jumped off of the george washington bridge after learning dharun ravi use the camera to spy on his date with another man. he says he was not tried to intimidate tyler clementi. >> he brought the guy over. he came out in an hour. everyone sees it happen. i figured he did not care. he was ok with it. >> dharun ravi faces time in prison. we will talk live about an exclusive interview that will air tonight on "20/20." parents are fighting back. the daily caller reports a teacher asked students to research weaknesses of the republican presidential candidates and senator research to the obama campaign. parents say there was no assignment to research any research in president obama. a school spokesman says they should the been given a choice of investigating either party. a baltimore county ordinance -- the fourth circuit court of appeals ruled the ordinance unconstitutional. adam caskey is back with a look at the forecast. >> take good vantage. played two good y

da roone ravi guilty on all counts. he never took the stand on his own behalf, instead used the police interrogation video to prove he meant no harm highlighting he never recorded clementi nor put the encounter online. >> it was like, obvious that they -- being intimate or whatever, and like so we closed it immediately. and i just thought that like, really felt uncomfortable. >> reporter: ravi's defense argued he only turned on his camera because he didn't trust clementi's visitor and was worried about theft. >> the guy walked in, i was -- because he came in and i said, hey, and he didn't acknowledge me. just sat on the bed. on tyler's bed, and then, i left the room and i was -- a little creeped out and worried about what was happening. because i had other -- >> reporter: prosecutors paint add very different picture successfully arguing ravi targeted his roommate because of his sexual orientation setting up his dpurt spy on cla clementi and daring people to watch when asked to use the room privately a second time. perha

ravi is going to serve time. and, david, because he is an indian national, he is probably going to be deported. >> we know tyler clementi's family spoke today. do they believe justice was served today? >> they hope the message is out. but that message is confusing. this bias law was confusing. there wasn't a lot of hate evidence presented in the so-called hate crime case. so, this verdict today is not an end in the fight against bullying. we are at the beginning of that fight. >> all right. chris cuomo tonight. chris, thanks so much. >>> we're learning in the case of the american soldier who allegedly put on the night-vision goggles and went door-to-door in that afghan village, murdering families. we know the name of the american soldier. and new hints, tonight, on how his lawyer plans to defend him. let's turn right to abc's martha raddatz in our washington bureau tonight. martha, what are you learning. >> reporter: the soldier has been identified as staff sergeant robert bails. we are reading quotes from bales

how do you prove this young student ravi was biased against gay people?cast it? or was he just engaging in sort of a college prank. >> -- establish that kind of bias and intimidation, there was the use of the text messaging, the dialogue that was taking place between dharun ravi and other students. >> yes. that was an important part of the evidence in the case. and just so our national audience who maybe hasn't been following the case so closely understands what happened. when the police started investigating this, they found out that ravi had, in fact, sent text messages to his friends saying i'm going to film this on a second occasion and, you know, sort of tune in. ichat me and you'll be able to see tyler clementi with this man in his bedroom and prosecutors believe that's anti-gay bias and gay intimidation. the defense has said there's no evidence of gay bias here. this was done as a stupid joke and a prank, and it wasn't done because of gay bias. and they say ravi would not have lived with an individual that he thought was gay if he was a h o homopho

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attorney says there is no evidence that ravi hated gays. >> nothing.. >> reporter: even after finding ravi had spied on him, clemente had invited his guest, an older man, back to his room. ravi is accused of setting up his web cam to spy again, but it didn't work. >> he put it to sleep. he made sure it didn't happen. >> reporter: a day later, clemente decided to jump from the bridge. ravi decided not to take the stand in his own defense. >> you decided that you prefer not to testify. am i correct? >> yes. >> reporter: the jury will likely begin its deliberations on wednesday. in new brunswick, new jersey. >> clemente killed himself after the web cam incident. but ravi is not charged with the death. >>> after four days of fighting, israel halted their strikes against palestinian militants in gaza, during talks talks with egyptian moderators. both sides said they had no interest in seeing the fighting spiral out of control into war. the israeli military has stopped their strikes against gaza militants and rocket fire into southern israel has decreased. 2

ravi is a jerk. he's insensitive. he's immature. i do see it as a chreng prank. owe ravi was not charged in connection with clementi's death he now faces ten years in prison. his lawyers promise an appeal. >> very bizarre that the two of them were in this tiny room. in my view if they had talked to one another, it would have stopped. >> reporter: sadly, back on september 22, 2010, dharun ravi texted tyler clementi an apology that read in part, "i've known you were gay, and i have no problem with it. i don't want your freshman year to be ruined because of a petty misunderstanding. " what ravi didn't know is that 14 minutes earlier clementi had updated his facebook page with this. "jumping off the g.w. bridge. sorry." >> osgood: it happened this week. a much discussed op-ed article in the" new york times "by goldman sachs executive greg smith who announced he was quitting his job because, he alleged, the banking giant cared more about its prove is than the being of its clients. smith even accused some of his colleagues of calling their clients, quote, memorial cup

ravi is a jerk. he's insensitive. he's immature. i do see it as a chreng prank. owe ravi was not charged in connection with clementi's death he now faces ten years in prison. his lawyers promise an appeal. >> very bizarre that the two of them were in this tiny room. in my view if they had talked to one another, it would have stopped. >> reporter: sadly, back on september 22, 2010, dharun ravi texted tyler clementi an apology that read in part, "i've known you were gay, and i have no problem with it. i don't want your freshman year to be ruined because of a petty misunderstanding. " what ravi didn't know is that 14 minutes earlier clementi had updated his facebook page with this. "jumping off the g.w. bridge. sorry." ,, neil, any luck finding a car? ,, not yet. i want to buy used but how do you know what you're really getting. check out carmax. all their used cars are guaranteed. that's where henderson found the one for him. way to go, henderson. finding the perfect car is easy at carmax because each car is carefully selected, inspected, thoroughly reconditioned a

ravi now faces up to ten years in prison. keeping them honest, at the time of his arrest, there was no law on the books making cyberbullying a crime. it wasn't until a month after his suicide that new jersey passed the law. prosecutors were able to convict him under a bias intimidation law instead. only 11 states currently have laws on the books criminalizing cyberbullying. 11 states, that is despite the fact that it remains a huge problem. kids between 8 and 15 say bullying is a bigger problem for them than raism or pressure to have sex. here is what joe clementi said today. >> the trial was painful for us, as it would be for any parent who must sit and listen to people dock about bad and inappropriate things that were done to their child. we were here every day because we wanted to be here for our son and because we believed the trial was important because it dealt with important issues for our society and for our young people today. >> i can only imagine how hard it nus have been to sit through the trial. they, of course,

, ravi is charged with invasion of privacy and intimidation. they also said he found him on the hard drive of the computer. >> searching for a college roommate and his sexual orientation. >> reporter: but a systems analyst with rutgers couldn't say if ravi pulled up video of ravi's encounter with another man. >> that was christine sloan reporting. if convicted, he could face up to 10 years in prison. >>> a trooper arrived on the scene of a car accident last night. on i-76 in brush creek township, north of breezewood. the two drivers involved in the crash began to argue. the maryland man then allegedly turned on the trooper. police say he attacked with two rottweilers. police shot and killed darrell jerome of columbia. an investigation is ongoing. >>> two brothers are learning their fate. police say ricky and jerome flew the drugs and brought back cases of money. both pleaded guilty to the crime. but a judge sentenced him to 15 years in federal prison. jerome got six years. >>> the details of a new consumer health study is taking the flavor out

ravi now faces up to ten years in prison. keeping them honest, at the time of his arrest, there was no law on the books making cyberbullying a crime. it wasn't until a month after his suicide that new jersey passed the law. prosecutors were able to convict him under a bias intimidation law instead. only 11 states currently have laws on the books criminalizing cyberbullying. 11 states, that is despite the fact that it remains a huge problem. kids between 8 and 15 say bullying is a bigger problem for them than raism or pressure to have sex. here is what joe clementi said today. >> the trial was painful for us, as it would be for any parent who must sit and listen to people dock about bad and inappropriate things that were done to their child. we were here every day because we wanted to be here for our son and because we believed the trial was important because it dealt with important issues for our society and for our young people today. >> i can only imagine how hard it nus have been to sit through the trial. they, of course,

sentencing for ravi set for may 21st. he faces up to ten years in prison and could face deportation to india where he was born. former prosecutor sunny hostin. were you surprised? by the verdict? >> i was surprised. i've been following this case since day one. i actually was in the courtroom when the case first began, and i thought that it was going to be difficult to prove bias intimidation, because as these two jurors just said, the prosecution had to prove what his motivation was. what was in dharun ravi's mind, and that is a very difficult thing to do, and, also, you know, anderson, this is the first time, in my view that bias intimidation, hate crimes, have been prosecuted in this way. >> explain what biased intimidation is? >> sure. in new jersey, what they had to show was dharun ravi intended to intimidate tyler clementi by spying on him. he was motivated by his bias, and intended to intimidate him because of his sexual orientation. they also could have proven it a different way. could have prove than he intended t

ravi's attorneys tried to argue that ravi was just an 18-year- old, who meant no harm. but jurors sided with clementi and his family. >> i hope they can put everything behind them and move forward. >> reporter: ravi's defense team said they expected their client to be found guilty on some of the charges. but many courtroom observers were stunned that the jury agreed with all of the prosecution's case. >> reporter: the clemente family did not comment on the verdict but said they hope the trial will keep the issues on issues like privacy and cyber bullying. >> we believe this trial was important because it dealt with important issues for our society and for our young people today. >> reporter: ravi left the courthouse with his family. he faces prison time and possible deportation to his native india, when he is sentenced in may. in new brunswick, new jersey, randall pinkston, wjz eyewitness news. >> the most serious charges against ravi carry up to 10 years in prison each. but legal experts said the most he would probably get altogether would be 10 years. >>> we have brea

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attorney says there's no evidence that ravi hated gays. even after finding out ravi spied on him, clementi invited his guest an older man back to his room. he's accused of setting up the webcam to -- a day later clementi committed suicide by jumping from the george washington bridge. >> three weeks in his college experience and he finds out that his sexual orientation has been broadcast. >> randall pinkston, cbs news, new brunswick, new jersey. >>> straight ahead, your wednesday morning weather and in sports, a pair of huge comebacks kick off march madness. and the first fan takes a friend to the game. adness. and he takes a friend to the game. lose those lines, for up to a year! juvÉderm® xc, is the gel filler your doctor uses to instantly smooth out lines right here. temporary side effects include redness, pain, firmness, swelling, bumps, or risk of infection. ask your doctor about juvÉderm® xc. >>> here's a look at today's forecast. in some cities around the country. new york, sunny, 68. miami, partly sunny, 82. chicago, mostly sunny, 8

ravi remains free on bail. he will be required to report to court once every two weeks until his sentencing in may. in new brunswick, new jersey, i'm randall pinkston. back to you. >> the most serious charges against ravi carry up to 10 years in prison each, but legal experts say the most he'll probably get altogether would be 10 years. >>> the army private at the center of the wikileaks case was back in a military courtroom this afternoon at ft. meade. bradley manning has been linked to the biggest leak of classified material in u.s. history and today a military judge denied a defense request to take sworn statements from eight people before the trial. the next hearing in the case is set for a 24th through 26th and so far no trial date's been set. >>> the american soldier accused of killing 16 afghan civilians is reportedly on his way to a u.s. military prison at ft. leavenworth, kansas. a senior defense department official says he is expected to arrive there sometime today. many afghans are furious the 38- ye

delaying the closing. >> reporter: ravi is facing 15 criminal counts.he most serious charge is bias intimidation, a hate crime, that could bring up to eight years behind bar. -- bars. >> nothing. nothing. >> reporter: even after finding out ravi had spied on him, clemente had invited a guest, an older man, back to his room. ravi was accused of setting up a web cam. >> he put it to sleep to make sure it wouldn't happen again. >> his roommate jumped from a bridge. ravi decided not to take the stand. >> you decided you would prefer not to testify, am i correct? >> yes. >> reporter: the jury will begin its deliberations on wednesday. in new brunswick, new jersey. randall pinkston, wjz. >> as mentioned, clemente killed himself after the incident with the web cam, but ravi is not charged with his death. >>> kai is in the newsroom with more on the search. >> reporter: italian authorities say they're planning to use sophisticated robots in the search. the officials say the goal is to use the machines to search dive areas that the divers cannot reach. the concor

in his first interview, 20-year-old dahru ravi opened up about the death of tyler clementi. >> if people want to hear this boy say by, i'm sorry. i should have never done it, that's a hard thing to do when they don't think they're a bully. >> reporter: a kid who, along with his friends, wasn't motivated boy hate but fascinated by his roommate's life-style. >> we think they're so open and accepting, this new generation, but the problems are still there. >> reporter: ravie is facing jail time talking about the impact the decisions had on tyler clementi. >> i don't think what ravi and his friends helped, made him feel even worse with things he was struggling with. >> reporter: you can see the interview right here on "20/20". >>> the nation's first catholic cathedral is closing for repairs. last summer's earthquake caused $3 million to $5 million in damages and the eight-month repair is about it begin. >>> engineers are sure the building is structurally sound. those aren't chips, rather long meandering cracks visible from the floor 100 feet below. while the church feels it surveyed the damag

ravi intended a hate crime but we can say mr. clementi received it it as a hate crime so he was found guilty on a number of biased crimes and invasion of privacy. he's looking at up to ten years behind bars now. >> i keep hearing about him being sent back to india. >> he can be deported. he was offered a plea deal several months ago where he would only have to do community service, get counseling and the state would try to prevent him from being deported. that was denied. and now as he's kwicted of felonies, he is facing deportation. >> dr. drew, look at the dad. check out this clip. >> to our college, high school and even middle school youngsters i would say this -- you're not necessarily going to -- you're going to meet a lot of people in your lifetime. some of these people you may not like. but just because you don't like them, does not mean you have to work against them. when you see somebody doing something wrong, tell them. that's not right. stop it. >> that's tyler clementi's dad. do you think he will feel justice was serv

>> they didn't focus on ravi. they did say they hope the message is out. but that message is confusing. the bias law is confusing. so this verdict today is not an end in the fight against bullying. we are at the beginning of that fight. >> all right, thanks so much. >>> we're also learning more in the case of an american soldier who put on night vision gogels and went door to door murdering families. we know the name of the american soldier and new hints tonight at just how his lawyer plans to defend him. let's turn to martha raddatz. what are you learning? >> abc news can identify the soldier as staff sergeant robert bales. 38 years old, likely be officially charged with 16 counts of murder tomorrow, but tonight we are learning a great deal more about him. >> reporter: if staff sergeant bales gunned down 16 innocent civilians as he is accused of doing, one can only ask, what happened to this soldier? listen to this quote from an army release from 2007 about a battle in which bales took part to recover a downed helicopter. bales said, i've never been more

. >> reporter: dharun ravi shook his head lightly after the verdicts were read. the 20-year-old former rutgers university student was found guilty of the most serious of 15 charges. they include bias intimidation, a hate crime, and invasion of privacy for using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate tyler clementi, then texting others to watch. ravi's attorney argued he set up the webcam to keep an eye on his belongings and was caught off guard by what he saw. >> the facts in the law and the evidence showed tyler was targeted because of his sexuality. >> reporter: clementi, an 18-year-old freshman was an honors student and talented musician. he killed himself in 2010, just days after the video of him kissing another man was streamed over the internet. clementi's parents called it a painful trial. >> we wanted to be here for our son and because we believe this trial was important because it dealt with important issues for our society and young people today. >> reporter: one juror called it a tough decision. >> you don't necessarily go in there thinking you want to ru

the case is now in the hands of a jury. >> reporter: daroon ravi showed no signs of being nervous, ashe judge put his fate in the hands of the jury. >> you will take this case, and decide without bias, passion, or prejudice, to either side. >> reporter: ravi is charged with 15 criminal counts for using his web cam to spy on his rutgers roommate, kissing another man, then inviting others to watch. the roommate, tyler clemente, later committed suicide by jumping off the george washington bridge. before the deliberations began, judge len berman gave his instructions. >> the state has the burden of proving the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. >> reporter: the jury heard statements from witnesses over 12 days. in the end, ravi decided not to testify in his own defense. >> reporter: in addition to invasion of privacy, prosecutors accused him of a hate crile, bias intimidation. to intimidate means to put another person in fear. >> reporter: that could go up to 10 years. the defense said ravi was just 18 and meant no harm. >> there's hate -- where is the information or evidence to

ravi showed now emotion as the jury convicted him. ravelly used his back cap to spy on his roommate, tyler clementi, during a sexual encounter back in september of 2010. a fuel days later tyler clementi killed himself. >> you you are going to meet a lot of people in your lifetime. some of these people you may not like. just because you don't like them, doesn't mean you work against them? >> and ravi faces prison time and deportation to india. george cloneally is a free man this morning after a brief stay in a washington, d.c. jail cell yesterday. jessica kartalija explains. >> clooney is one of several people arrested during a peaceful protest. [ chanting ] >> reporter: police cuffed clooney and took him away. trying to draw attention to genocide and other actions in sudan. clooney with his father and other activists were arrested when they crossed a police line to send an urgent message to sudan's president. >> we need humanitarian aid to be allowed into sudan. immediately. and the second thing that we're here to is a simple thing fo

the defense said ravi was just 18 and meant no harm. >> here's hate. where is there some information, evidence to support it? >> the prosecution painted a very different picture. >> the defendant's actions were mean-spirited, they were plalicious, -- malicious, they were crim. >> reporter: it's now up to the jury to decide which of those pictures is right and if ravi is guilty. in new jersey, randall pinkston, wjz eyewitness news. >> ravi will likely only get jail time if he is convicted of one of the two of the second- degree bias intimidation charges he faces. >>> check in for the news stories coming up. >>> paying a price at the pump. the government's latest push to raise prices. >>> a monumental problem. the newest issue at the washington monument. and the work to make sure the landmark is safe. check in for these stories and all the day's breaking news, of course. now back to kai. >>> denise, thank you. >>> president obama gets caught up in march madness. today, the president filled out his ncaa bracket pool and selected the ncaa. >>> we want you

did ravi free? did he walk out of the kilometres-per-hour room today? >> he did have to surrender his passport. he walked out of the court room free. his lawyers have six weeks to file paper and that could include their intention to file an appeal. they did send out an e-mail saying they intended to appeal this decision. kate zernike good to talk to you. >> thanks ray. >> brown: again, the other major developments of the day: this evening, a u.s. official identified staff sergeant robert bales as the soldier who allegedly killed 16 afghans. afghan president karzai accused the u.s. of failing to cooperate in investigating the massacre. on the newshour, u.s. ambassador to afghanistan ryan crocker said the u.s. would "have to take a close look" at karzai's demand that u.s. troops be pulled from rural areas, but that the u.s. still has a "functioning relationship" with the afghan government. and north korea announced it will launch a new satellite on a long-range missile, possibly violating a new agreement for u.s. food aid. and on a lighter note-- online,