Update on the Clemens' trial
A needle stored with a beer can appeared to contain an extremely tiny amount of Roger Clemens' DNA, which turned out to be good news and bad news for both sides in the perjury trial of the seven-time Cy Young Award winner.
A forensic scientist on Friday (May 26th) linked Clemens to cotton balls and a syringe needle saved from an alleged steroids injection 11 years ago. His testimony, laced with statistics and probabilities, was one of the last pieces of the government's case in its effort to prove that the pitcher lied to Congress in 2008 when he denied using performance-enhancing substances.
Under cross-examination, Clemens' lawyer got the expert to acknowledge there were "hundreds of thousands" of white males in the United States who could be a match for the scant amount of DNA found on the needle and that it's "conceivable" the cotton balls could have been contaminated by beer and saliva.
LINK: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/25/SP7D1ON63A.DTL
Defense got what they needed: Reasonable Doubt. So, is the testimony of Clemens' trainer enough to convict him for perjury?
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this is the Sports Group.
Here's an update on Walker from the 25th, BTW. The ranking democrat of the House Oversight Committee sent another one of those strongly worded letters asking Walker if he would like to withdraw his testimony.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/168087/house-members-seek-answers-scott-walker-amid-new-evidence-lying-congress
