During an evidence session with the Joint Committee on Human Rights on 16 November 2010 on the coalition's human rights cases he said he recognised that trials without a jury should only be used where there is a clear risk of jury intimidation.

BBC: Select Committee

Organised criminals will face not just the pre-emptive seizure of their assets, but will be forced to cooperate with investigations and will face trial without jury where there is any suggestion of intimidation of jurors.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Politics | Full text: Blair on law and order

In April, 2011, a grand jury indicted Ravi on fifteen counts, including two charges of second-degree bias intimidation.

NEWYORKER: The Story of a Suicide

This issue may become important to a jury, given the seeming conflict between a charge of invasion of privacy and a charge of bias intimidation, both charges that Ravi faces.

NEWYORKER: The Story of a Suicide