It is known by each baseball fan that Roger Clemens is charged with obstruction of justice. It is claimed that he has lied before Congress about intake of steroids and HGH.
The attorney Rusty Hardin claimed that Roger Clemens’ physical appearance didn’t change greatly before, during and after his working with Brian McNamee. The attorney claimed that this aspect was a proof that Roger Clemens hadn’t taken steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs.
Appearance of muscles is normally used by prosecutors as proof that an athlete uses steroids or/and other performance-enhancing drugs. But this tendency was not used during the case against Roger Clemens. No one could claim that muscles of Roger Clemens manifested that he had administered steroids and HGH. It is one of differences between the cases against Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds.
As for the governmental case against Barry Bonds, federal prosecutors called many individuals in the trial that could testify that anabolic steroids promoted evidential changes in physique of this athlete. They affirmed that intake of steroids caused increase of muscle mass, increased size of the head and testicular atrophy in Barry Bonds.
So, Rusty Hardin showed 4 photos of Roger Clemens. The pictures were made four different times during the baseball career of Roger Clemens, including the time when Clemens was working with the coach Brain McNamee. Hardin pointed out that the pictures displayed that there were no changes in physical appearance that could manifest that he used steroids and HGH.
Rusty Hardin claimed that the photos manifested only the process of ageing. The masseur Cheryl Redfern noticed that she didn’t observe any changes in physique of Roger Clemens. Roger Clemens had neither back acne, nor gynecomastia, nor dramatically enhanced muscle size.
The former Major League Baseball player Phil Garner also claimed that there were not any significant changes in physical appearance and performance of Roger Clemens during working with the coach Brian McNamee.
Steve Durham, the Assistant US Attorney put efforts to discredit the argument about lack of physical changes in Roger Clemens during the cross-examination of the former baseball player Phil Garner. He claimed that while some steroids increased muscle size, others didn’t induce enhancing muscles. So, he claimed that the photos could say nothing about steroid use.
Feds desire to take advantages in both cases: in the case against Roger Clemens and in that against Barry Bonds. While they confirm that changes in physical appearance of Barry Bonds display that he has applied steroids, lack of physical changes in Roger Clemens doesn’t prove that he hasn’t applied steroids.
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