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WASHINGTON – The judge in the Roger Clemens case declared a mistrial Thursday morning which may end the government’s prosecution of the pitcher for allegedly lying to Congress.
The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton came during the morning of the trial’s second day when government prosecutors showed a clip from U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings in the infamous 2008 testimony Clemens gave to Congress. The clip showed Cummings reading an affidavit from Andy Pettitte’s(notes) wife Laura in which she remembered her husband telling her Clemens had admitted using steroids to him in the late 1990s. Before the trial Walton ordered that any testimony from Pettitte’s wife was inadmissible and by showing the clip Thursday, the jury was exposed to evidence it should not have seen. Walton said, “I don’t see how I unring the bell.”
WASHINGTON – The judge in the Roger Clemens case declared a mistrial Thursday morning which may end the government’s prosecution of the pitcher for allegedly lying to Congress.
The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton came during the morning of the trial’s second day when government prosecutors showed a clip from U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings in the infamous 2008 testimony Clemens gave to Congress. The clip showed Cummings reading an affidavit from Andy Pettitte’s(notes) wife Laura in which she remembered her husband telling her Clemens had admitted using steroids to him in the late 1990s. Before the trial Walton ordered that any testimony from Pettitte’s wife was inadmissible and by showing the clip Thursday, the jury was exposed to evidence it should not have seen. Walton said, “I don’t see how I unring the bell.”
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