Mr. Ravi, also 18 at the time, set up the webcam and watched from a friend's room.
Mr. Ravi set up the webcam, he argued, because he was concerned about protecting his belongings from the man visiting Mr. Clementi.
But the defense's insistence that Mr. Ravi had set up the webcam because he was afraid Mr. Clementi's visitor would steal something, he said, rang hollow.
Had Mr. Ravi set up the webcam because he had a pretty good idea that he would see Mr. Clementi in an intimate moment?
There was no other reason to set up the webcam, she argued, other "than to expose their sexual orientation, to expose their private sexual activity".
Mr. Ravi's friends and teammates have testified that he told them he had set up the webcam and that he appeared to be "uncomfortable" about having a gay roommate.
The lead prosecutor, Julia McClure, said Mr. Ravi had set up the webcam in his room at Rutgers University and urged others to watch to prove what he had been telling his friends for weeks: his roommate was gay.
Mr. Lane helped set up the Webcam in December, when the cheese was made, beginning as milk from Mr. Calver's herd of Friesian-Holstein cows and then progressing through the standard curds (and whey) phase on its path to becoming a hunk of cheddar.
Thus, we set up the webcam in the position shown in Fig. 1b.
Yesterday, the jury also heard from Lokesh Ojha who said Ravi asked him to help set up the webcam that was allegedly used to view Clementi and his mystery date.
