Dharun Ravi, the young man who was tried and convicted of a hate crime related to the suicide of his roommate at Rutgers, recently was sentenced to 30 days in jail. It was an unsatisfying ending to a prosecution that probably should have never been brought. I doubt anyone is happy with the outcome.
The facts of the case were never really in dispute. Ravi used his laptop to spy on his roommate and saw him kissing another man in his dorm room. He spread word of it using social media, and then tried to engineer a party where he and some friends would watch another encounter. The second encounter never happened. For reasons unknown, but presumably related to being outed, the roommate killed himself by jumping off the George Washington Bridge.
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