Federal prosecutors hope that the judge Reggie Walton will permit the former first baseman of the Major League Baseball David Segui to present testimony in the trial related to the case of Roger Clemens. This player had a conversation with Brian McNamee, the former personal trainer of Roger Clemens. It is confirmed that they have discussed about application of steroids by the former baseball star.
The former personal trainer of Roger Clemens was called to testify against his client because he turned out to be the only person that had direct knowledge about intake of steroids and other related medicines by Clemens. Moreover, he kept injection equipment: vials, syringes and needles which were allegedly mixed with the blood of Roger Clemens. DNA analysis was conducted in order to confirm whether the blood belonged really to Clemens.
Rusty Hardin, a defense attorney for Roger Clemens, confirmed that the steroid evidence was created by Brian McNamee after the questioning by federal prosecutors.
But prosecutors confirmed that David Segui told them that Brian McNamee said that he stored several things as evidence of steroid use by several players in 2001. It was certain years before Roger Clemens’ former trainer became the target of the investigation.
Information presented by David Segui to federal prosecutors differed essentially from that provided to the sportswriter Jim Baumbach. His affirmations provided to the sportswriter were published in an article in 2008. According to that piece of news, Segui claimed that he had never spoken about steroids with his friend Brian McNamee.
Segui learnt about implication of Brian McNamee into the trial of Roger Clemens just in 2006, when he read a piece of news in the Los Angeles Times.
David Segui was quite open in his discussions about personal usage of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. He said that players of the Major League Baseball asked him many times whether he had used steroids. The former Major League Baseball first baseman admitted that he had applied them. But David Segui noticed that he had never discussed about application of steroids with Brian McNamee.
Segui supported the decision of McNamee to save evidence about application of prohibited products by his clients. According to Segui, it is a proper decision because sometimes innocent persons are blamed but guilty individuals are covered. So, Brian McNamee could help to reveal the truth.
However federal prosecutors asked the judge Walton to permit Segui to provide testimony in the trial connected with Roger Clemens, the judge didn’t announce his decision yet.
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