The snow is melting, the seed catalogs are arriving, and all eyes are turning to Spring Training in Florida! Some baseball fans are also turning their attention to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to follow the recent developments in United States v. William R. Clemens, aka Roger Clemens . The indictment, filed in August 2010, charges Clemens with six counts: three counts of making false statements to Congress, two counts of perjury, and one count of obstruction of Congress.
The charges arise out of testimony that Clemens gave before Congress on Feb. 8 and Feb. 13, 2008, concerning the use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) in Major League Baseball. Clemens flatly denied ever using PEDs. It appears that recently retired Yankees pitching ace Andy Pettitte, a former teammate of Clemens’, remembers things differently. Prosecutors anticipate that Pettitte, a government witness, will testify that Clemens admitted using PEDs to him some years ago, according to court documents in U.S. v. Clemens . Pettitte’s anticipated testimony was the catalyst for a recent motion by prosecutors requesting a hearing concerning defense counsel’s potential conflict of interest.
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