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- Ravi's roommate, Tyler Clementi, killed himself in 2012 by jumping off the George Washington Bridge
- Clementi's death started a national conversation about the treatment of young LGBT people
- Ravi was sentenced Thursday to probation plus 30 days in jail after pleading guilty to attempted invasion of privacy.
A former Rutgers University student whose roommate killed himself after being captured on a webcam kissing another man has pleaded guilty to attempted invasion of privacy.
Thursday's plea from Dharun Ravi comes after an appeals court last month threw out a 15-count conviction against him in a case that stemmed from the 2010 death of 18-year-old Tyler Clementi.
Clementi's death started a national conversation about the treatment of young gay men and women.
Ravi was sentenced Thursday to probation plus 30 days in jail, and won't serve any additional jail time under the plea agreement.
He'd already fulfilled all terms of the sentence under a bias intimidation count that conviction that was tossed out because of a change in New Jersey law and ordered a new trial on other counts.
"Reaching the plea agreement was a reasonable way to resolve the case in view of the appellate court decision, which dismissed a series of criminal bias charges that had been levelled against the defendant by a grand jury in Middlesex County," said Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew Carey.
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In statement Thursday, Clementi's parents said legislators make constitutionally valid and clear laws and that "witnesses or bystanders need to become upstanders for those in our society like Tyler."
"We call on all young people and parents to think about their behavior and not be bystanders to bullying, harassment or humiliation. Interrupt it, report it and reach out to victims to offer support," the parents said. "If this had happened in Tyler's case our lives might be very different today."
