Washington, May 23 (ANI): Legal experts have predicted that prosecutors are unlikely to win an appeal against former Indian- origin Rutgers student Dharun Ravi's 30-day jail for web-streaming his gay roommate's encounter with his date.
"I don't think they have much chance," The New York Daily News quoted Rutgers Law School professor Louis Raveson, as saying.
"The judge has discretion, and the standard for an appeal is to argue that the judge abused his discretion, and I don't think the appellate division will go that far," he added.
Ravi, 20, was found guilty of bias intimidation and invasion of privacy after he filmed gay roommate Tyler Clementi's tryst with another man.
He was also sentenced to do 300 hours of community service and pay 10,000 dollars to assist bias-crime victims.
With Ravi facing the possibility of ten years in prison and even deportation to India, the sentence was lighter than some legal analysts expected.
According to the report, the Middlesex County prosecutor's office has until May 31 to file paperwork objecting to Ravi's lenient sentence.
A judge has ordered Ravi to report to Middlesex County Adult Correctional Facility on May 31, but if prosecutors appeal, as they have vowed to do, he will not have to serve time in jail until the process is completed. (ANI)
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