Federal prosecutors want the judge Reggie Walton to permit the former first baseman of the Major League Baseball David Segui to testify in the trial related to the case of Roger Clemens. This person had a conversation with Brian McNamee, the former personal trainer of Roger Clemens. It is claimed that they have discussed about administration of steroids by the former celebrated baseball player.
The former personal trainer of Roger Clemens was called to testify against his client because he turned out to be the only person who had direct knowledge about application of steroids and other related medicines by Clemens. Furthermore, he saved injection equipment: vials, syringes and needles that were allegedly mixed with the blood of Roger Clemens. DNA analysis was conducted in order to determine whether it was Clemens’ blood.
Rusty Hardin, a defense attorney for Roger Clemens, claimed that the steroid evidence was fabricated by Brian McNamee after the interrogation by federal prosecutors.
But prosecutors claimed that David Segui told them that Brian McNamee said that he saved some things as evidence of steroid use by certain players in 2001. It was several years before the former trainer of Roger Clemens became the target of the investigation.
Information presented by Segui to federal prosecutors differed completely from that provided to Jim Baumbach, a sportswriter. His statements presented to the sportswriter were published in an article in 2008. According to that article, Segui confirmed that he had never spoken about steroids with his friend Brian McNamee.
Segui found out 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 performance-enhancing drugs. He said that Major League Baseball players asked him numerous times whether he had utilized steroids. This person admitted that he had taken them. But David Segui noticed that he had never discussed about administration of steroids with Brian McNamee.
David Segui supported McNamee’s decision to store evidence about administration of forbidden substances by his clients. According to David Segui, it is a right decision because sometimes innocent guys are blamed but guilty persons are covered. Thus, 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 decision of the judge is not announced yet.
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