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Webcam case: Dharun Ravi sentenced to 30 days in jail
May 21, 2012
A New Jersey judge on Monday refused to toss out the conviction of Indian student Dharun Ravi convicted of hate crime charges for spying over a homosexual roommate who later committed suicide and sentenced him to 30 days in jail.
Ravi, 20, was found guilty of invasion of privacy and bias, intimidation for pointing a webcam at his roommat's gay tryst with an older man.Prosecutors had said that Ravi deserves jail time. The defence plans to appeal the conviction.