from the hearing in 2008 at which clemens denied using steroids in which elijah cummings a congressman reads out the deposition from andy petit s wife. that is exactly what the judge said the jury shouldn t hear. the lawyer for roger clemens, rusty hardin immediately asked the judge for a mistrial and the judge said this is a very serious matter. now judges are always reluctant to declare a mistrial, but if it s going to be done i suppose you could say it s more likely early on in the trial than after the jury has sat through a lot of evidence. if there is a mistrial we d have to start all over again. this jury would be dismissed, another pool called in, there would have to be more questions, going to take another week to impanel a jury and the government would have to decide whether to seek, you know, to do that. i can t imagine the government wouldn t. so to sum up here, thomas, judges are always reluctant to grant mistrials but this judge says he s very upset that this