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Former Rutgers student gets 30-day jail sentence in hate crime case
The Lookout / Yahoo ^ | 21 May 2012 | Ron Recinto

Posted on 05/21/2012 10:10:23 AM PDT by newzjunkey

A New Jersey judge sentenced a former Rutgers student to 30 days in jail for using a webcam to spy on his roommate...

Dharun Ravi, 20, was convicted on two second-degree bias intimidation charges in a case that garnered national headlines because his roommate, Tyler Clementi, committed suicide after the spying...

The lead prosecutor in the case had asked for "a period of imprisonment" in her sentencing brief but according to Reuters did not seek the maximum 10-year sentence. The prosecution team wrote that Ravi "has failed to accept any degree of responsibility for the numerous criminal acts he committed, and shows no remorse for the same, despite significant evidence pointing directly at him."...

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: bullying; clementi; dharunravi; homosexualagenda; moralabsolutes; ravi; rutgers; tylerclementi
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Another story says the judge also recommended against deportation.

No matter what you think of the deceased and his life, this sentence is a joke.

1 posted on 05/21/2012 10:10:28 AM PDT by newzjunkey
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the schools and the leftists teach these kids that sex is sex is sex and it don’t matter if its heterosexual, homosexual or bestiality, its all sex.

Pornographers spy on heterosexuals and film their sex - why is this case any different and why is it a hate crime?


2 posted on 05/21/2012 10:16:18 AM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (liberalism is the assault on the natural human condition)
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really don't care...the dead guy; was having
queer sex (not his roommie) in a shared room.

3 posted on 05/21/2012 10:17:07 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (WA. DC E$tabli$hment; DNC/RNC/Unionists...Brazilian saying: "$@me Old $hit; different flie$". :^)
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I agree...., the guy in the Erin Andrews case got 2.5 years.


4 posted on 05/21/2012 10:17:35 AM PDT by Blaine Fabin
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Because pornographers don’t spy on heterosexuals, they film them with their consent after having signed contracts.

That said, this shouldn’t be a “hate crime” at all.

Filming someone without their consent in a setting where they have an expectation of privacy should be (is in most places?) illegal.

The idea that the guy might not have liked gays is the crime rather than the act of invading someone’s privacy is absolute lunacy.


5 posted on 05/21/2012 10:19:58 AM PDT by gzzimlich
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Great! Just what we need - another cocky kid who thinks he can do anything he pleases and skate. And a judge who provides the ice.

I can only imagine what other 'benefits' we can expect for allowing this person to stay in our country.

6 posted on 05/21/2012 10:22:03 AM PDT by In Maryland (Liberal logic - the ultimate oxymoron!)
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In my opinion, this character will enjoy 30 days in the cooler. He’s as big a three dollar bill as his “roommate” was.


7 posted on 05/21/2012 10:22:18 AM PDT by GadareneDemoniac
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To: Blaine Fabin

The guy in Erin’s case wasn’t her roommate.


8 posted on 05/21/2012 10:23:11 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: gzzimlich

I think all “hate crimes” are crap - it is punishing thoughts not acts. But this punk should be punished for invading someone’s privacy - I don’t care whether he was watching a gay roommate or a herterosexual one.


9 posted on 05/21/2012 10:25:46 AM PDT by In Maryland (Liberal logic - the ultimate oxymoron!)
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To: gzzimlich; WorkerbeeCitizen; Chode

At most this would be wiretapping but not a hate crime.

I read an article that said the Indian man recorded this because his roommate was bringing men into the room and not letting him in at the same time. The Indian man was worried his stuff would/was getting stolen so he turned on the webcam. He had a valid worry there. I have lived in the dorm and know how roomies can be. Is why I always paid extra to have own room!
Well the Indian man turned on webcam to “maybe” catch a thief and caught this. He should have been adult about it and erased it not Beavis and Butthead about it and showed it to his friends.


10 posted on 05/21/2012 10:26:53 AM PDT by Morgana (I only come here to see what happens next. It normally does.)
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All “hate crimes” are jokes.


11 posted on 05/21/2012 10:27:23 AM PDT by jwalsh07 (.)
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If this conviction is appealed, it will be tossed out. With such a light sentence that really means he might spend no more than a week I’m jail, how much is it really worth to appeal.


12 posted on 05/21/2012 10:27:57 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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Suicide was the real hate crime.


13 posted on 05/21/2012 10:28:38 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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it seems to me that the University bears some responsiblity for knowingly placing a sodomist with a straight guy.

The progressives are working hard to normalize deviant behavior within society, IMO.


14 posted on 05/21/2012 10:29:54 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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This flys in the face of the 1st amendment several different ways, freedom of speach, freedom of association and maybe freedom of religion.
15 posted on 05/21/2012 10:34:21 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again.")
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No matter what you think of the deceased and his life, this sentence is a joke.

This was the media doing the same thing that they are doing to George Zimmerman. Most of it was made up. The facts in the case do not support a conviction, but the homosexuals are a protected class, so the suicide had to be someone else's fault.

16 posted on 05/21/2012 10:36:07 AM PDT by ALPAPilot
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Maybe he didn’t like the smell in his shared dorm room after Clementi shat himself every time while getting cornholed.
I’d throw the roommate off a bridge if I came home and found that disgusting scene and odor.


17 posted on 05/21/2012 10:37:48 AM PDT by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.)
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To: jwalsh07

Was he “white Indian”?


18 posted on 05/21/2012 10:39:50 AM PDT by TigerClaws (He)
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Dunno, but if he actually watched the webcam he’s probably diversified.


19 posted on 05/21/2012 10:45:11 AM PDT by jwalsh07 (.)
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It was mocking invasion of privacy that struck the target at a particularly vulnerable time of his life. Both kids were in their first week or weeks of college and dorm life.

The charges were overblown, this didn't have to go to trial, but unhappily, a felony conviction and short prison stay are likely the least bad outcome once news of the tragedy became media-ized.
20 posted on 05/21/2012 10:45:26 AM PDT by kenavi (1% of the 1% were born in the 1%.)
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