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 |
Verdict | Guilty on all counts (2012; overturned in 2016) |
Case history | |
Appealed to | Appellate Division |
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Court membership | |
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.[1][2][3]
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.[4] The following month, Ravi accepted a plea deal and pleaded guilty to one count of attempted invasion of privacy.[5]
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."[6]
In the second incident, Ravi urged friends and Twitter followers to watch via his webcam a second private encounter between Clementi and M.B., though the viewing never occurred.[7] Clementi died by suicide on September 22, 2010, and his death brought national and international attention to Ravi's trial.[8][9]
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.[10] 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.[11][12]
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