Pitching great Roger Clemens picked up the win today as a judge declared a mistrial in his perjury trial due to barred information given to the jurors but the lead prosecutor, but how will he fare for the series?
Soon to be fired prosecutor Steven Durham introduced material in a video that appeared to bolster the credibility of a future witness - Clemens' former teammate Andy Pettitte, and referred to Pettitte's wife, saying she had been told Clemens used human growth hormone. The U.S. government had spent more than a year preparing the case, and was only in its second day of presenting its evidence with their third witness on the stand. My favorite part of the story is that Clemens signed autographs as he walked to a nearby sandwich shop after the mistrial declaration.
Clemens spent 24 years playing for four teams and winning the Cy Young Award for best pitcher seven times, but was fighting charges that he lied to Congress in 2008 when he denied taking steroids and human growth hormones. It is still undetermined if retrying Clemens would violate the constitutional protection against double jeopardy.
What fascinates me is how blatant the steroid use has been in professional baseball, and that these guys continue to lie and pretend like it doesn't exist. And worse, the closest they can get to pinning steroid use on them is not by proving it, but by trying to show they lied about denying use (also known as the "OJ is guilty in civil, not criminal charges" result).
Soon to be fired prosecutor Steven Durham introduced material in a video that appeared to bolster the credibility of a future witness - Clemens' former teammate Andy Pettitte, and referred to Pettitte's wife, saying she had been told Clemens used human growth hormone. The U.S. government had spent more than a year preparing the case, and was only in its second day of presenting its evidence with their third witness on the stand. My favorite part of the story is that Clemens signed autographs as he walked to a nearby sandwich shop after the mistrial declaration.
Clemens spent 24 years playing for four teams and winning the Cy Young Award for best pitcher seven times, but was fighting charges that he lied to Congress in 2008 when he denied taking steroids and human growth hormones. It is still undetermined if retrying Clemens would violate the constitutional protection against double jeopardy.
What fascinates me is how blatant the steroid use has been in professional baseball, and that these guys continue to lie and pretend like it doesn't exist. And worse, the closest they can get to pinning steroid use on them is not by proving it, but by trying to show they lied about denying use (also known as the "OJ is guilty in civil, not criminal charges" result).
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