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WASHINGTON Former Major League Baseball player David Segui maybe called to testify in the perjury trial of ex-pitching ace RogerClemens, the judge in the case ruled on Thursday. According to prosecutors Segui has been reluctant to travel toWashington for the trial without knowing he will definitelytestify. Federal prosecutors had filed a motion to bring Segui as a witnessin order to question him about a conversation between Segui andClemens' former personal trainer Brian McNamee, who has said heinjected Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone. McNamee allegedly told Segui in 2001 about having saved darts, slang for needles, used to inject players with steroids or humangrowth hormone, according to a motion filed by Clemens' lawyeragainst the government's proposal. Anthony Corso, described as a friend and a client of McNamee's inManhattan, will also be allowed to be called by the government,U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton ruled. Between 2002 and 2004, McNamee allegedly told Corso that Clemensused human growth hormone regularly and that McNamee had savedevidence from 2001, according to the defense motion. Both testimonies would bolster McNamee's claims that he injectedClemens with anabolic steroids and human growth hormone between1998 and 2001. As the only person with first-hand knowledge ofwhether Clemens used the drugs, his testimony is the core of thegovernment's case against the former baseball great. Clemens' attorneys have worked to paint McNamee as a liar who hasobtained immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony.Segui and Corso could help shore up the credibility of their starwitness who has said he lied to officials about his knowledge ofthe case. McNamee testified last week that he kept quiet on stashed medicalwaste from a 2001 injection even though federal agents and anindependent commission headed by former Senator George Mitchell hadasked him if he had evidence of Clemens' alleged drug use. In other testimony, a forensic expert with the FBI's chemistry unitsaid she had found evidence of different steroids on medical wastethat McNamee had turned over to authorities. I can only tell you the chemicals that were present on thoseitems, Pamela Reynolds said. McNamee had turned in waste from an alleged injection of anabolicsteroids he gave to Clemens in August 2001 to federal agents inJanuary 2008 as evidence. The waste included needles, gauze, abroken steroid ampoule and human growth hormone stuffed into aMiller Lite. Clemens' defense lawyer countered on Thursday that someone may havedripped steroids over the waste and that chemicals in the batch ofevidence could have mixed together, making it hard to tell whethersteroids were on items connected to Clemens. McNamee admitted lastweek that some of the medical waste was from other players. Clemens, a seven-time Cy Young Award winner as best pitcher, hasrepeatedly denied taking performance-enhancing drugs or lying tolawmakers, saying that McNamee had injected him with shots ofvitamin B12 and the anesthetic lidocaine instead. Clemens, 49, is being tried for a second time on federal charges oflying in 2008 to the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee onOversight and Government Reform, which was investigating drug usein Major League Baseball. His first trial ended in a mistrial lastyear. The trial is scheduled to run until June 8. I am an expert from elevator-components-package.com, while we provides the quality product, such as Elevator Door Operator , China Geared Traction Machine, Elevator Speed Governor,and more.
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