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Potential Clemens jurors question cost of hearing
What's worse, lying to Congress or lying to a grand jury?
WASHINGTON (AP) Roger Clemens stood and uttered ''Morning'' to the 90 potential jurors who had gathered in the ornate, sixth-floor ceremonial courtroom, the one deemed big enough to hold them all. After he sat down, he swiveled his chair, as if trying to make eye contact with as many as possible.
Some of those looking back had no idea who he was. Others, including two who survived the first cut, wondered if it was a waste of taxpayer time and money that got him to this point.
The seven-time Cy Young Award winner was back in court Monday in the government's second attempt to prove that he misled a House committee at a landmark drugs-and-sports hearing in 2008. The first trial last July ended in a mistrial when prosecutors introduced inadmissible evidence after only two witnesses had been called.
One potential juror said he felt ''it was a little bit ridiculous'' when Congress held hearings on drug use in sports because he felt the government should have been focusing on bigger problems. Nevertheless, the native of Chile - an investment officer for an international bank - was asked to return, the only male to remain in the jury pool among those who were individually screened on the first day.
Another potential juror recalled the 2008 hearing by saying: ''At the time, I remember thinking it didn't seem to be a great use of taxpayer money,'' but she was kept in the pool after she said she could be impartial....
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/feds-bulk-retry-clemens-over-072820524--spt.html;_ylt=AnOAIk891kE2q.U9y1sC1L45nYcB
Some of those looking back had no idea who he was. Others, including two who survived the first cut, wondered if it was a waste of taxpayer time and money that got him to this point.
The seven-time Cy Young Award winner was back in court Monday in the government's second attempt to prove that he misled a House committee at a landmark drugs-and-sports hearing in 2008. The first trial last July ended in a mistrial when prosecutors introduced inadmissible evidence after only two witnesses had been called.
One potential juror said he felt ''it was a little bit ridiculous'' when Congress held hearings on drug use in sports because he felt the government should have been focusing on bigger problems. Nevertheless, the native of Chile - an investment officer for an international bank - was asked to return, the only male to remain in the jury pool among those who were individually screened on the first day.
Another potential juror recalled the 2008 hearing by saying: ''At the time, I remember thinking it didn't seem to be a great use of taxpayer money,'' but she was kept in the pool after she said she could be impartial....
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/feds-bulk-retry-clemens-over-072820524--spt.html;_ylt=AnOAIk891kE2q.U9y1sC1L45nYcB
I predict this will die just like any jail time for Barroid.
