Federal prosecutors want the judge Reggie Walton to 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 spoken about intake of steroids by the former famous baseball player.
McNamee was chosen to testify against Roger Clemens because he turned out to be the only person that had direct knowledge about usage of steroids and other related medications by Roger Clemens. Furthermore, he kept injection equipment: vials, syringes and needles which were allegedly mixed with Roger Clemens’ blood. DNA analysis was conducted in order to define whether the blood belonged really to Clemens.
Rusty Hardin, a defense attorney for Roger Clemens, claimed that the steroid evidence was fabricated by Brian McNamee after the questioning by federal prosecutors.
But prosecutors noted 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 the former trainer of Roger Clemens became the target of the investigation.
Information provided by David Segui to federal prosecutors differed essentially from that presented 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 confirmed that he had never spoken about steroids with his friend Brian McNamee.
David Segui learnt about involvement of Brian McNamee into the trial of Roger Clemens only in 2006, when he read an article in the Los Angeles Times.
David Segui was quite open in his discussions about personal administration of steroids and other related medicines. He said that players of the Major League Baseball asked him many times whether he had used steroids. This person acknowledged that he had applied them. But Segui confirmed that he had never spoken about administration of steroids with Brian McNamee.
David Segui supported McNamee’s decision to keep evidence about intake of forbidden medications by his clients. According to David Segui, it is a correct decision because sometimes innocent persons are blamed but guilty individuals are covered. Thus, Brian McNamee could help to support the truth.
Although federal prosecutors asked the judge Walton to permit Segui to provide testimony in the trial linked with Roger Clemens, the judge didn’t announce his decision yet.
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