In 2010, Dharun Ravi, an 18 year old Rutgers student, secretly recorded his roommate Tyler Clementi while he was with another man and posted it on the internet for everyone to see. For the next two years this is what the world was told by every media outlet, politician, activists worldwide and we accepted it as the truth. He was prejudged.
Two years later, we know none of this is true, nothing was ever recorded, nothing was broadcast over the internet. Yet Ravi was robbed of one of the most fundamental rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution: presumption of innocence. No one treated Ravi as though he was innocent until proven guilty.