JACOB SULLUM: Did Dharun Ravi Commit a Hateless Hate Crime? The mob was angry and demanded a sacrifice.

Related thoughts from Ann Althouse. “That sounds like Ravi was found guilty because he couldn’t disprove a motivation that was inferred based on Clementi’s subjective perception. And yet the defense was deprived of much of the evidence of Clementi’s subjective state of mind.”

The mob was angry and demanded a sacrifice.