New
York, May 11: US prosecutors have asked a New Jersey court to sentence
convicted Indian American student Dharun Ravi to prison for bias
intimidation in a webcam spying case, but not the maximum of ten years.
Former
New Jersey state Rutgers University student Ravi's March convictions
for live-streaming his gay college roommate Tyler Clementi kissing a man
and hindering the criminal investigation warrant jail time, prosecutors
argued Thursday.
Days after the incident Clementi jumped to his death off the George Washington Bridge on Sep 22, 2010.
However,
first assistant Middlesex county prosecutor Julia L. McClure said in a
14-page memo and a supporting document, neither her office nor the
families of the victims suggest that the maximum 10-year sentence should
be imposed.
Ravi "has failed to accept any degree of
responsibility for the numerous criminal acts he committed," McClure
wrote, "and shows no remorse for same, despite significant evidence
pointing directly at him."
She noted that he rejected two
plea deals prior to his trial, including one that would have resulted in
600 hours of community service instead of prison, plus mandatory
counselling associated with cyber-bullying.
Ravi is
scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Glenn Berman on May 21 for invasion
of privacy, bias intimidation, tampering with evidence, and hindering
apprehension.
Ravi, who came to the United States with his
parents from India as a 3-year-old, also faces possible deportation.
McClure noted in her memo that when proposing the plea deals, her office
also promised to assist Ravi in avoiding deportation.
"The
defendant rejected the state's plea offer and made no counteroffer,"
she wrote, noting that he opted instead for a jury trial. The outcome of
that trial warrants a jail term, she said.
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