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So the Roger Clemens perjury trial officially started yesterday.
And today it ended with the judge declaring a mistrial. Go ahead and search for it on Google News, I'm too pissed off to link to a specific article.
Background. Roger pitched for the Red Sox and was god among mortals. Then he started getting old (and by old I mean old for a fireballing major league pitcher, not a normal person) and his skills started to decline. When his contract was ending it was generally agreed he was not worth the huge money he was asking for. He was running out of steam and moving down the depth chart. At the very end of his stay though, he suddenly picked up his game and showed flashes of his old self.
He left though. He told us he wanted to play closer to his home in Texas and play for a contender... so he went from Red Sox Nation to Suck Nation in Toronto (take a second to look at a map if you need to).
In Toronto he was his old self again. He won Cy Young award after Cy Young award. He was a god among mortals once again. He latter moved to the Yankees (a bigger sin than perjury could ever be) and finally to Houston.
His turn around from aging former star to ageless mega star was intriguing. I don't recall any actual steroid allegations, but I know it wasn't far from anyone's mind.
Then the steroid scandal officially broke and Roger was called before Congress to testify at a hearing on steroids in baseball. He said under oath that he'd never used.
Not long after that, the MLB Mitchel report came out and his name was all over it. He was charged with perjury. Jury selection began last week and testimony began yesterday.
A motion was made before the judge during a pre-trial hearing where the judge decided that no second hand statements about Clemens using steroids could be admitted into the record.
Today the prosecution played a video tape of Andy Pettite's wife saying that Andy Pettite had told her that Roger Clemens used steroids.
Please take a second to reread the last two mini-paragraphs and let them sink in.
The judge stopped the video and declared a mistrail.
My question:
How can you make it through law school and pass the bar and get a job as a Federal Prosecutor AND STILL BE THIS STUPID?
We clearly are talking about the single dumbest lawyer in the history of law.
What a friggin' idiot!
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Obviously the prosecution wanted a mistrial declared. What other reason could there possibly be to account for it? Perhaps he's a Clemens fan (when Rocket Roger played for NY) and doesn't want him punished, so intentionally proceeded in a manner guaranteed to warrant a mistrial!
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