Judge Declares Mistrial In Roger Clemens Case
July 14 2011, Published 11:20 a.m. ET
By Adam S. Levy - Breaking Celebrity News Staff Writer
Prosecutors in the federal perjury case against Roger Clemens struck out Thursday, after U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton deemed a mistrial when they showed evidence to the jury he’d already ruled off-limits.
The 48-year-old baseball legend, who pitched for the Boston Red Sox, Toronto Blue Jays, Yankees and Astros in his 23-year career, was accused of lying to a House committee in 2008 regarding his claims that he never used performance-enhancing substances.
Here’s how it all went down:
The evidence in question centered around testimony given by Andy Petitte -- Clemens' good friend, and teammate with the New York Yankees and Houston Astros -- admitting he’d heard Clemens admit more than ten years ago to using human growth hormone, and that he told his wife Laura about it that day. (The judge had already disregarded Laura Pettitte as a witness, since she’d heard nothing directly from Clemens himself.)
The video the prosecution showed before the jury was from Clemens’ 2008 testimony.
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