Key witness in US privacy invasion trial surfaces

New Brunswick, NJ: The man filmed with a Rutgers University freshman in a dorm room testified on Friday at the privacy-invasion trial of the student's roommate.

The man appeared in a New Jersey court looking clean-cut and not matching the description of the overweight, "sketchy" man students said they saw visiting Tyler Clementi's room.

The man testified that he saw the webcam pointing towards the bed, but noted there was no light indicating it was on.

He had met Clementi, 18, through a social networking site for gay men in August 2010, he said, and he texted repeatedly after their third and final rendezvous. He didn't know his last name.

Clementi's name wasn't in the paper until it was reported that he had jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge into the Hudson River.

The man's testimony came in the trial of Clementi's roommate, 20-year-old Dharun Ravi, who is charged with bias intimidation, invasion of privacy and other crimes.