New Jersey v. Dharun Ravi
| New Jersey v. Dharun Ravi | |
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| Court | Superior Court in Middlesex County, New Jersey |
| Full case name | State of New Jersey vs. Dharun Ravi |
| Decided | March 12, 2012 |
| Case history | |
| Appealed to | Appellate Division |
| Subsequent action(s) | Appellate court found bias intimidation laws unconstitutional, invalidating Ravi's original convictions. Ravi subsequently accepted a guilty plea deal from prosecutors, for attempted invasion of privacy. |
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| Judge sitting | Glenn Berman |
State of New Jersey vs. Dharun Ravi was a criminal trial held in Middlesex County, New Jersey Superior Court from February 24, 2012 to March 16, 2012 in which former Rutgers University undergraduate student Dharun Ravi was tried and convicted on 15 counts of crimes involving invasion of privacy, attempted invasion of privacy, bias intimidation, tampering with evidence, witness tampering, and hindering apprehension or prosecution. The charges stemmed from incidents that occurred on September 19 and 21, 2010. On September 9, 2016, a New Jersey court of appeals overturned the conviction and ordered a new trial on narrower charges. The following month, Ravi accepted a plea deal and pleaded guilty to one count of attempted invasion of privacy.
In the first incident, Ravi and his friend Molly Wei used a webcam to view a private romantic encounter between Ravi's roommate, Tyler Clementi, and another man identified only as "M.B." In the second incident, Ravi urged friends and Twitter followers to watch via his webcam a second tryst between Clementi and M.B., though the viewing never occurred. Clementi committed suicide on September 22, 2010, and his death brought national and international attention to Ravi's trial. On May 21, 2012, Ravi was sentenced to 30 days in jail, 3 years probation, 300 hours of community service, a $10,000 fine, and counseling on cyberbullying and alternate lifestyles. Ravi served 20 days of his 30-day jail term from May 31 to June 19, 2012 at the Middlesex County Adult Corrections Center in North Brunswick, New Jersey.
Before September 17, 2010, Clementi had chatted online with a man whose identity has not been made public. While Ravi was out for the evening on September 17, the man came to Clementi's dorm room for the first time.
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