LAW: Woman in Rutgers gay suicide case seeks pretrial intervention!

A former Rutgers University student accused of watching a surreptitious webcast of a classmate’s same-sex liaison is seeking to enter an intervention program that could result in the dismissal of invasion of privacy charges. The classmate later committed suicide, according to AP.


Molly Wei, a 19-year-old from West Windsor, applied to enter the pretrial program last month. If she’s accepted, a judge could set conditions, such as staying out of legal trouble, doing community service and maintaining a job or attending school.

If she meets those conditions for a specified time period – it could be up to three years, though one year is typical – the charges would be dropped.


Wei is charged with two counts of invasion of privacy and could receive a five-year prison sentence if she’s convicted. Such a long sentence would be unusual for a first-time offender.

Prosecutors see her as the lesser suspect in an alleged crime that’s linked to a tragedy.

Tyler Clementi committed suicide by jumping from the George Washington Bridge on Sept. 22, hours after his roommate, Dharun Ravi, allegedly tried to watch a second encounter between Clementi and a man via webcam from Wei’s computer.