As predicted, the state's auto-policy on good behavior made thirty days into twenty, and he got out a few hours ago. Some groups are calling the limited jail time a travesty, others think that he served any is the travesty, and a few just openly want the right to lead all gay college students to the nearest bridge and push. The Internet is for ugly.Due to the short length of the sentence, INS will not be seeking a deportation hearing.
Did anyone win this case in any fashion? Did anyone learn anything at all? Those who hate continue to do so. Nothing will change their minds.
Dharun Ravi was never charged with Tyler Clementi's suicide. Invasion of privacy, disclosure, bias, evidence destruction, witness tampering, interference with an investigation. All of those charges brought back guilty verdicts. Twenty days in jail and a lifetime of either trying to explain it away or, just maybe, realization and seeing through the eyes of another. I wouldn't bet on the second option.
I am tired of seeing people champion the actions of one for, in their eyes, causing the death of the other.
Some of them are trolls, out to stir whatever reactions they can. And others are setting up their own cameras, with more tracking and data protection in place, waiting...