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Thursday, July 14, 2011
This just in: The federal government is terrible at this.
As for the rest, the big picture,? You only need to do the same spirit.
For anyone who held out hope that there might be some legal ruling, any ruling by the jury, which would help you decide if what he thought about Roger Clemens, Thursday was a little instructive exercise. That was the day a U.S. district court judge ruled that prosecutors had so completely pre-poisoned the jury in the perjury trial of Clemens there was no future.
Therefore, a mistrial the judge Reggie Walton said Clemens put the case back into the hopper, with the federal government to decide whether to resubmit the judge decide if that is still allowed, and the process essentially hold for months, at least in terms of their public presentation.
Pair this with the case of Barry Bonds in San Francisco, where a series of initial charges over time is reduced to a single conviction for obstruction charge did not specifically mention the word "steroids" and what the government has to demonstrate in these two files is equivalent to some giant swings and misses.
And no matter if Clemens is the case resubmitted, the fundamental reality is that the courts will ultimately not be of much help here. In terms of what people think of Bonds, Clemens, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and the rest of the crew was on steroids, is the court of public opinion that has made the most surprising verdicts.
Clemens mistrial was a plain old legal blunder. The judge said prosecutors could not present the testimony of Andy Pettitte's wife unless he was in his reply, because she did not hear directly from the state Clemens had used human growth hormone.
Once the hearsay information, in fact, was introduced via video, a mistrial was underway. If you are the kind of baseball fan to this debate on performance-enhancing drugs is either boring or annoying, alleviation has been delayed. The government has yet to reflect on what to do, and that means Clemens the conversation will continue. And even if the government wants another chance, the judge may decide that Clemens would try to be res judicata and rejected.
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