Former URI Player Sentenced To Probation on Voyeurism Charges

A former University of Rhode Island basketball player was sentenced to two years of probation and ordered to undergo mandatory psych evaluations after pleaded no contest to voyeurism charges last week.

Jonathan Holton was dismissed from URI last year following charges of felony video voyeurism in Fourth Division District Court after two students complained he filmed consensual sex acts with two different women, and then posting the videos on Facebook.

A Superior Court judge sentenced Holton, 22, on Wednesday, May 29, dismissing one of the two felony charges and ordering Holton to have no contact with the victim, reports the Narragansett Times.

Holton's lawyers argued another person filmed him engaging in sexual acts and hacked into his Facebook page to post the videos, unbenownst to him, reported WPRI.

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Following his arrest for video voyeurism in 2012, Holton was also charged with using a stolen laptop while at URI, and arrested for a Florida robbery warrant. However, both charges have since been handled.