Clemens injected himself with steroids and hgh is now on the stand. brian mcnamee is his name. let s talk about his testimony and what it means for this case with rachel self, criminal defense attorney who is back with us and faith jenkins a former prosecutor. it is said, faith, that the prosecution really needs to get some good stuff out of brian mcnamee, because the andy pettitte testimony kind of bombed. do you agree? i do agree. mcnamee is really their key witness at this point. this is not one of those cases where you have a lot of physical evidence. the case will rise or fall on the believability and the credibility of these witnesses like mcnamee. if if the jury actually believes hi steroid then that is a guilty verdict. his credibility is absolutely essential. i guarantee you the defense is going to try to impeach him oohing past, i heard that they were trying to get in some divorce records, things like that. they are going to try everything they can to try to impeach his
Basically been completely useless because you can t unring a bell. they heard the testimony. i don t think that was necessarily a blow, and trying to strike it out completely might have actually turned the jurors off. this thing is going to play its way out. jon: faith, it s the second go around for this prosecution. if this one doesn t fly, does roger clemens get off the hook? you know, that is a good question. i mean at this point the government has spent millions of dollars trying this case, which is a perjury case, as you mentioned. i think that this is they are being extra careful. the last time there was a mistrial because they admitted evidence that the judge had previously told them was not to be admitted, and that evidence was released in front of the jury. this time they are going by the book, and making sure that that doesn t happen, and i think this case is going to go to the jury. i don t know what is going to happen in the end. it s going to depend on the credibility
And they are wondering if the evidence of cotton balls and vials stored in a beer can for seven years, which is mcnamee s smoking gun, if that could be tainted evidence. if they are asking those questions of the judge that means they are asking those questions in the jury room. who holds onto cotton balls for seven years? i wouldn t trust them. jon: rachel and then there is the testimony of andy pettitte who gave fairly damaging testimony about his former teammate, saying that he had used human growth hormone in the past and injected himself with it. and then when asked about his recollection of all of this. how good your risk pettite says, well, probably about 50%. pretty hard to send a guy to prison if your recollection is only 50%. absolutely. and the defense s motion was a good motion to preserve the record for appeal. but realistically speaking the judge wasn t going to allow that motion, because if it tends to prove or disprove a fact it will go to the jury, and to strike the t
Congress about steroid use. rich edson is live at the federal courthouse in washington with more. hi, rich. reporter: good afternoon, jenna, and this is where roger clemens faces several charges of percentage, lying to perjury, lying to congress. this is what this trial is all about. their key witness, brian mcnamee, clemens former trainer in the early 2000s, it s mcnamee who says clemens used performance-enhancing drugs, and he s also presented investigators with si ridges and gauze pads claimed to have clemens dna on it. well, it s clemens defense team that s just wrapped up its opening statements, the attorney saying that evidence, the si ridges and gauze pads, can easily be manipulated. they say that mcnamee kept it in his basement for several years and described it as a mixed-up hodgepodge of garbage,
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