Role of David Segui in Roger Clemens’ case

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 connected with the case of Roger Clemens. This player had a conversation with Brian McNamee, the former trainer of Roger Clemens. It is stated that they have discussed about administration of steroids by the former well-known baseball player.
McNamee was chosen to testify against Roger Clemens because he turned out to be the only person who had direct knowledge about application of steroids and other related medicines by Roger Clemens. Moreover, Brian McNamee saved a beer can with vials, syringes and needles that were allegedly mixed with Roger Clemens’ blood. DNA analysis was conducted in order to confirm whether the blood belonged really to Clemens.
Rusty Hardin, a defense attorney for Roger Clemens, said that the steroid evidence was fabricated by Brian McNamee after the interrogation by federal prosecutors.
But prosecutors confirmed that David Segui told them that Brian McNamee said that he stored some things as evidence of steroid use by some players in 2001. It was some years before the former trainer of Roger Clemens became the target of the investigation.
Information presented by Segui to federal prosecutors differed essentially from that provided to the sportswriter Jim Baumbach. His statements provided to Jim Baumbach were published in an article in 2008. According to that article, David Segui confirmed that he had never spoken about steroids with his friend Brian McNamee.
David Segui learnt about involvement of Brian McNamee into the case of Roger Clemens just in 2006, when he read an article in the Los Angeles Times.
David Segui was quite open in his discussions about personal intake of steroids and other related products. He said that players of the Major League Baseball asked him many times whether he had utilized steroids. The former Major League Baseball first baseman acknowledged that he had applied them. But Segui claimed that he had never discussed about usage of steroids with Brian McNamee.
Segui supported the decision of McNamee to store evidence about application of banned preparations by his clients. According to David Segui, it is a reasonable decision because sometimes innocent guys are blamed but guilty individuals are covered. Thus, Brian McNamee could help to disclose the truth.
However the judge Walton was asked to permit David Segui to present testimony in the trial linked with Roger Clemens, it is unclear yet whether the judge will allow it.