Judge: Your Peers Are Idiots -- Here's 30 Days

A stunning end to the sensational Rutgers Webcam trial. Dharun Ravi could have gotten 10 years for spying on his roommate, Tyler Clementi. Although I think this case spun completely out of control, it's hard to imagine a conviction of a felony -- especially one of bias intimidation -- landing someone just 30 days in jail. Read HERE.

I'm not alone. 

The New York Times reports: 

Steven Goldstein, the chairman of Garden State Equality, a prominent New Jersey gay-rights group, was displeased. “We have opposed throwing the book at Dharun Ravi,” he said in a statement. “But we have similarly rejected the other extreme, that Ravi should have gotten no jail time at all, and today’s sentencing is closer to that extreme than the other. This was not merely a childhood prank gone awry. This was not a crime without bias.”Mr. Ravi — who also was sentenced to three years’ probation, 300 hours of community service, counseling about cyberbullying and alternate lifestyles and a $10,000 probation fee — was not charged with causing Mr. Clementi’s death, but the suicide hung heavily over the trial, and over Monday’s sentencing hearing. Mr. Clementi’s mother, father and brother all read statements, their voices occasionally quivering as they spoke. “I cannot imagine the level of rejection, isolation and disdain he must have felt from his peers,” Tyler’s brother, James Clementi, said. “Dharun never bothered to care about the harm he was doing to my brother’s heart and mind. My family has never heard an apology, an acknowledgment of any wrongdoing.”