David Segui’s statements about steroid use by Roger Clemens

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 linked with the case of Roger Clemens. This player had a conversation with Brian McNamee, the former coach of Roger Clemens. It is claimed that they have spoken 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 that had direct knowledge about intake of steroids and other related medicines by Clemens. Furthermore, he kept injection equipment: vials, syringes and needles that were allegedly mixed with Roger Clemens’ blood. DNA analysis was conducted in order to confirm whether it was Clemens’ blood.
Rusty Hardin, a defense attorney for Roger Clemens, confirmed that the steroid evidence was created by Brian McNamee after the questioning by federal prosecutors.
But prosecutors claimed that David Segui told them that Brian McNamee said that he kept certain things as evidence of steroid use by certain players in 2001. It was certain years before Roger Clemens’ former trainer became the target of the investigation.
Information provided by Segui to federal prosecutors differed essentially from that presented to Jim Baumbach, a sportswriter. His affirmations presented to the sportswriter were published in an article in 2008. According to that article, Segui claimed that he had never spoken about steroids with his friend Brian McNamee.
David Segui learnt about implication of Brian McNamee into the trial of Roger Clemens only in 2006, when he read a piece of news in the Los Angeles Times.
Segui was quite open in his discussions about personal usage of steroids and other related medicines. He said that players of the Major League Baseball asked him many times whether he had utilized steroids. This person acknowledged that he had used them. But Segui affirmed that he had never spoken about usage of steroids with Brian McNamee.
Segui supported the decision of McNamee to store evidence about usage of prohibited medicines by his clients. According to David Segui, it is a correct decision because sometimes innocent persons are blamed but guilty persons are covered. Thus, Brian McNamee could help to support the truth.
Although federal prosecutors asked the judge Walton to permit Segui to provide testimony in the trial linked with Roger Clemens, the judge didn’t announce his decision yet.