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SPORTS: BASEBALL: PROFESSIONAL :
LAW: CASE: DECISIONS :
SPORTS: DRUG AND SUBSTANCE USE AND ABUSE:
Clemens Acquittal Latest Blow for Sports Cases
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Clemens Acquittal Latest Blow for Sports Cases
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER and JOSEPH WHITE and PETE YOST
Associated Press
WASHINGTON June 19, 2012 (AP)
ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/
clemens-acquittal-latest-blow-sports-cases-16600448
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Barry Bonds. Guilty on a technicality. At least that's how much of the
public sees it. It's all that came out of a seven-year investigation into
baseball's home run king.
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Lance Armstrong. Not even prosecuted. A two-year, multi-continent
investigation brought to a close this year with no charges filed.
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Now Roger Clemens. Acquitted on all counts. A five-year investigation
ended with the top pitcher of his generation celebrating with family hugs
inside the courtroom.
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After three expensive failures, the government is done, it seems, with the
business of pursuing high-profile cases of drugs-in-sports with a track
record not worth bragging about.
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"It was a tremendous waste of federal resources," said Stanley Brand, a
long-time Washington defense attorney who was counsel to the House of
Representatives from 1976 to 1983. "The juries that acquitted these people
weren't persuaded by any of this. That's the man on the street."
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With the government striking out yet again, the policing of drugs in
sports now falls to other entities. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency filed
formal accusations last week against Armstrong that could strip the
cyclist of his seven Tour de France victories. Armstrong denies any
doping.
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Clemens, 49, was acquitted Monday on all six counts that he lied to
Congress when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs. The government
had been pursuing him since 2007, when he was first mentioned in the
Mitchell Report on drug use in baseball, and he famously and vehemently
disavowed any link to steroids and human growth hormone at a nationally
televised hearing in 2008.
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Clemens' lawyers derided the hearing as a "show trial," and even some
members of Congress at the time questioned the validity of the
proceedings. But then-President George W. Bush had made the problem of
drugs in sports a talking point even mentioning it in his State of the
Union address in 2004. The FBI and Justice Department pursued a perjury
case against the former pitcher that eventually involved 93 federal agents
and officers. It carried over into the Obama administration, albeit
without the head of the Justice Department's criminal division, who stayed
out of the case because he had represented Clemens at the hearing.
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