Roger Clemens spent another day at Capitol Hill on Thursday,
denying all allegations against him and proclaiming his innocence in front of
the House Oversight committee once more, while his former trainer Brian McNamee
made his seven-hour deposition and brought new evidence to the case.
In a 15-minute news conference after McNamee’s deposition,
his legal team, made up of Earl Ward, Richard Emery and Mark Paoletta,
presented the evidence that according to them, clearly incriminate Clemens, and
said it is just a matter of time before the truth will surface.
The reporters were shown two photos of gauze pads, syringes,
needles that McNamee says were used to inject Clemens with steroids. Despite the
fact that the evidence is seven years old, experts said establishing the DNA
wouldn’t be a problem and the results would be viable to be used in court.
McNamee’s legal advisors refused to discuss further than the
photos, but said the evidence will associate Clemens’ name with steroids and
will prove that the seven-time Cy Young Award winner was guilty of lying under
oath, which is a very serious accusation.
Rusty Hardin, Clemen’s lawyer, said McNamee was just giving course
to a personal vendetta against the pitcher, and that everything he said in his
accusations was a lie. “Five or six or seven months from now, any of you that
have jumped on this bandwagon about Roger taking steroids and assume anything
that Brian McNamee says is the truth will be embarrassed,” Hardin said at the
press conference.
Furthermore, Hardin said the evidence could only be in his
client’s favor, but at the same time, he asked himself: “How do you deal with
someone who comes out with a psycho thing like sitting on a syringe for nine
years? … He’s a troubled man.”
McNamee’s lawyer, Richard Emery, motivated the evidence his
client has kept for so long: “He’s a New York City cop. He thinks in terms of
evidence. He got a sense that Roger was not trustworthy and would betray him
ultimately. He said about himself that if he was going to get thrown under the
bus by Roger, he was going to take Roger with him.”
Despite Hardin’s claims that this could never be considered
solid evidence in court, forensic scientists come to disagree. If the DNA
proves to belong to Clemens, it could mean two things: either he lied under
oath about using steroids, or he was not aware of the fact that he was injected
with steroids. An investigation is under way.