Jury selection begins today in the trial of Dharun Ravi, the Rutgers student accused of spying on his gay roommate, Tyler Clementi, via webcam in the midst of a sexual encounter. Clementi committed suicide soon after when he jumped off the George Washington Bridge.

Ravi’s attorneys plan to argue that Ravi, 19, actually held no ill will towards Clementi, based on some conciliatory texts that he sent to Clementi after it was revealed that he’d been spying. 

Unfortunately these private texts contradict Ravi’s public statements.