Roger Clemens acquitted on all charges

[bluedigger]

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Jurors returned their verdict Monday after close to 10 hours of deliberation. The outcome brings an end to a 10-week trial that capped an expensive, five-year investigation into one of the greatest pitchers in the history of baseball.
The 49-year-old Clemens was accused of perjury, making false statements and obstructing Congress when he testified at a deposition and at a nationally-televised hearing in February 2008. The charges centered on his repeated denials that he used steroids and human growth hormone during his 24-year career.
The verdict is the latest blow to the government's pursuit of athletes accused of drug use.http://www.mercurynews.com/sports-headlines/ci_20881269/jury-resumes-deliberations-monday-clemens-trial

For the record, I believe Roger juiced. Now maybe Congress can concentrate on more appropriate matters - I'm sure Jamie Dimon lied about something the other day.



I kid, I kid!

[JonLP24]

1. Just about to post

I'm so glad. Unlike Bonds, this wasn't lying during a criminal investigation. Congress conducted that whole hearing just to determine if the Mitchell Report was accurate. What an incredible waste of time this entire thing was.

[bluedigger]

2. Indeed.

A waste of time and valuable resources needed elsewhere.

[joeybee12]

3. You're right...it was showboating by Congress...

What a waste of time.

That said, Roger used 'roids...we all know he did.

[Auggie]

4. WTF? McNamee testified he shot-up Clemens

Money. Fucking money bought him an acquittal.

[JonLP24]

5. It looks like the defense

raised enough questions to doubt his credibility. I didn't sit through the evidence so I have no idea so keep that in mind when I point out the bold.

ut McNamee was the only person to claim firsthand knowledge of Clemens using steroids and HGH, and even prosecutors conceded their star witness was a "flawed man." Clemens' lawyers relentlessly attacked McNamee's credibility and integrity. They pointed out that his story had changed over the years and implied that he conjured up the allegations against Clemens to placate federal investigators.

Some items associated with the beer can were found to have Clemens' DNA and steroids, but the defense called the evidence "garbage" and claimed it had been contaminated or manipulated by McNamee.

Other evidence offered tenuous links between Clemens and performance-enhancing drugs. Former teammate Andy Pettitte recalled a conversation in which Clemens supposedly admitted using HGH, but Pettitte said under cross-examination that there was a "50-50" chance that he had misheard.

Convicted drug dealer Kirk Radomski supplied McNamee with HGH for a starting pitcher and even sent a shipment to Clemens' house under McNamee's name, but Radomski had no way of knowing if any of the HGH was specifically used on Clemens. The pitcher's wife, Debbie, admitted receiving an HGH shot from McNamee, but she and McNamee differed over when the injection occurred and whether Clemens was present.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/8068819/roger-clemens-found-not-guilty-all-six-counts-perjury-trial

[bluedigger]

6. People testify about stuff all the time.

Sometimes the jury finds their testimony credible, sometimes it doesn't.

[Auggie]

7. Clemen's lawyers created questionable doubt, blah blah blah ...

But it was bullshit. Clemens was able to buy his aquittal with good laywers.

[trumad]

8. If I had major money---I'd buy good lawyers to.

[Auggie]

11. Of course you would

too bad the 99% -- make it even the 90% -- is fucked.

[bluedigger]

9. I guess the prosecution failed to account for that.

They must not have known Clemens is rich and could afford good lawyers.

[Auggie]

10. I don't know -- maybe their dicks did the thinking

Egos ...

The rich just laugh at the legal system. Bankers, brokers, politicians -- the fucking plutocracy/oligarchy can lie and cheat and steal at will and no one can catch them.

[bluedigger]

12. Who do you think the legal system works for?

Poor people?

[Auggie]

14. Nice post, Mitt

[bluedigger]

15. That's enough out of you, Auggie-doggie.

To the top of the car you go!

[Renew Deal]

13. Jury Nullification

This trial, the Edwards trial and others show that people don't want to ruin other people's lives over nonsense.