| Ex-Rutgers student gets 30-day jail sentence in spycam case May 21st 2012, 16:37   In this Friday, Feb. 24, 2012 file photograph, former Rutgers University student, Dharun Ravi, arrives at court …
 This undated file photograph provided by Joseph and Jane Clementi shows their son Tyler Clementi at a family function. …A New Jersey judge sentenced a former Rutgers student to 30 days in jail for using a webcam to spy on his roommate kissing another man.
Dharun Ravi, 20, was convicted on two second-degree bias intimidation charges in a case that garnered national headlines because his roommate, Tyler Clementi, committed suicide after the spying. Clementi, 18, jumped from the George Washington Bridge three days after learning that a September 2010 encounter with an older man was seen by a computer-mounted camera Ravi had set up in their dorm room. The case highlighted the issues of gay bullying and teen suicide. A jury in March convicted Ravi of hate crimes for spying on the encounter through a webcam, and for trying to get others to do the same when the man visited again. Ravi was not charged with causing Clementi's death. Tyler Clementi's family asked the judge today to sentence Dharun Ravi to prison time. The Associated Press reported that Clementi's father, Joseph Clementi, told the judge during the sentencing hearing, "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 bridge where he jumped to his death. Ravi did not speak during Monday's sentencing hearing. The lead prosecutor in the case had asked for "a period of imprisonment" in her sentencing brief but according to Reuters did not seek the maximum 10-year sentence. The prosecution team wrote that Ravi "has failed to accept any degree of responsibility for the numerous criminal acts he committed, and shows no remorse for the same, despite significant evidence pointing directly at him." Ravi's defense attorneys sought probation for Ravi, noting that he has no previous criminal record. The defense team also is appealing the verdict and seeking a new trial. Before the sentencing, Ravi's parents and Clementi's parents each made appeals. Ravi's parents attended a rally recently at New Jersey's State House in Trenton of several hundred supporters, many of them Indian or Indian-American, the Associated Press reported. The protesters said that Ravi, an Ultimate Frisbee player and computer whiz, should not have been convicted of hate crimes because he does not hate gay people and that prison is too harsh a punishment for someone who did not mean to hurt anyone, according to the AP. His mother, Sabitha Ravi, aimed her words at journalists at the rally, saying that those who covered the trial should speak up against her son being sent to prison. "You were quiet there. Why don't you wake up now and bring some justice for Dharun?" she asked in the AP story. The AP report said Clementi's parents have communicated mostly through written statements or by reading prepared statements after court proceedings. In one, they said they wanted Ravi to be held accountable but that he need not be subject to a "harsh" punishment. They also told the AP they have started a foundation to honor their son and have talked about how he had come out as gay to them days before he started at Rutgers University. Julia McClure, the lead prosecutor in the case, asked for "a period of imprisonment" in her sentencing brief but is "not asking the court to sentence defendant Dharun Ravi to the maximum sentences." McClure wrote that Ravi "has failed to accept any degree of responsibility for the numerous criminal acts he committed, and shows no remorse for the same, despite significant evidence pointing directly at him." She said that since Ravi carried out "planned, malicious and continued criminal conduct" over a period of several days, there were no extraordinary circumstances to justify giving him anything less than the standard prison sentence associated with his convictions. Ravi's imprisonment would serve as a deterrent to other potential offenders, she said. M.B.'s lawyer Richard Pompelio said in an interview on Thursday that M.B. also believed Ravi's sentence should include "some form of incarceration." M.B. found the media interviews Ravi gave after his conviction were "disconcerting" and showed little remorse or willingness to take responsibility for the crimes, Pompelio said. "There was an indication that he was still blaming my client to certain degree for the situation that (Ravi) ended up putting himself in. I don't think that bodes well for him," he said. Ravi's lawyers have argued that the judge did not properly instruct the jury, and that his conviction for bias intimidation was an "extraordinary and unprecedented" use of hate crime laws, typically used to prosecute violent crimes. A lawyer for the Clementi family did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Ravi's lawyers also did not immediately respond. 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