Rutgers Trial : Dharun Ravi Sentenced to 30 Days in Jail

Here is the latest update in the Rutgers trial involving two roommates.

Former Rutgers student Dharun Ravi, was sentenced to 30 days in jail after being found guilty for spying on his roommate.  Ravi’s roommate, Tyler Clementi, died by suicide shortly after finding out the video of his intimate moment had surfaced online.

“I do not believe he hated Tyler Clementi,” Judge Glenn Berman told the court. “He had no reason to, but I do believe he acted out of colossal insensitivity.”

Ravi also must report to Middlesex Adult Correctional Center on May 31 at 9 a.m. for his probationary sentence.

“I heard this jury say, ‘guilty’ 288 times–24 questions, 12 jurors. That’s the multiplication,” Berman said. “I haven’t heard you apologize once.”

The prosecution, which sought a longer prison term, will appeal the judge’s sentence.

During the Rutgers trial,before Ravi was sentenced, his mother made an emotional plea for leniency for her son.

At the end of her plea, Ravi’s mother threw herself on her son, sobbing and hugging him.

In March, Ravi was found guilty, of a bias crime for using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate Tyler Clementi.

The family of Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers freshman who died by suicide after his roommate broadcast a gay sexual encounter, asked the judge today to sentence Ravi to prison time.

Clementi’s father, Joseph Clementi, told the judge, “One of Tyler’s last actions was to check Ravi’s Twitter page” and noted that his son checked his roommate’s Twitter page 37 times before leaving the Rutgers campus and driving to the George Washington Bridge where he jumped to his death.

Ravi, 20, is convicted of a hate crime for using a webcam to spy on Clementi during a sexual encounter with a man identified only as “MB” and announcing what he saw on Twitter.

Ravi put out another tweet when he heard Clementi was having a second date with MB.

Joseph Clementi said that Ravi decided his son “wasn’t deserving the respect of basic human decency” and “was below him” because Tyler Clementi was gay.

“He did it in a cold calculating manner and then he tried to cover it up,” the father, who had to pause to compose himself, said. Clementi’s mother Jane Clementi cried in the front row has her husband spoke.

He accused Ravi of having any “lack of remorse”.