Rutgers freshman suicide after roommate broadcast gay sexual encounter online?

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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

There is. Of course there is and even the folks that keep putting forward these assinine, inapplicable hypotheticals know this.

It comes down to the expectation of privacy. The nanny has no expectation of privacy in your home. "But what if your yard-work ****s your dog in his doghouse and you happen to leave your cell-phone on your deck with the camcorder running and catch it...what, then hotshot?" Blah blah blah. If there is no reasonable expectation of privacy, then there is no privacy to be invaded. End of story.

This kid, on the other hand, had an expectation of privacy in his domicile. We have some people trying to say that nobody has an expectation of privacy in a dorm room and they CONTINUE to ignore the ramifications of that precedent.

Yes, any court in the country is going to say you have a reasonable expectation of privacy in your own dormroom. If you didn't, a cop wouldn't need any kind of warrant to search it because it's the reasonable expectation of privacy that gives rise to 4th amendment protections. There is ample precedent allowing for an expectation of privacy in a communal living environment as it applies to Constitutional law.

But even if you don't - who gives a shit?A His roommate told him he would leave the room. Reasonable expectations don't matter when you have actual, but again, they keep ignoring this.

I don't see the point in hypotheticals here when there are obvious, stipulated facts to work within.

Just putting this out there...were you caught in a compromising position with a member of the same sex at any point in your life?