Twenty-year-old Dharun Ravi, a former Rutgers University student, could face 10 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of invasion of privacy, witness tampering and bias intimidation for using a webcam to spy on his roommate Tyler Clementi’s intimate encounter with another man back in September 2010.

Clementi jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge days after the spying.

The case, which has garnered national attention, sparked awareness of cyber-bullying and harassment of gay teenagers.

According to legal experts, the case is precedent setting and will remain in the public conscious long after the verdict is reached. “It will test the limits of the bias law, it will be a precedent with respect to the use of the modern ways of communication that younger people are using these days,” said defense attorney and former prosecutor Henry Klingeman. “It’s going to be a case people are talking about for years to come.”

Ravi sat stoically while the verdict was read and shook his head slightly afterwards.

A sentencing date is set for May 21, 2012.

Correspondent David Cruz was at the courthouse and NJToday will have full coverage of this developing story today at 6, 7:30 and 11 p.m.