Clemens Hall of Fame Jury Won’t Be Swayed by Not-Guilty Verdict
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The not guilty verdict in Roger Clemens’s perjury case is unlikely to sway baseball’s Hall of Fame voters who’ve spent years deciding whether accusations of steroid use should keep the seven-time Cy Young Award winner from being enshrined.
Clemens, 49, was acquitted by a federal court jury in Washington yesterday on all charges of obstructing a congressional investigation, three counts of making false statements and two counts of perjury after telling a U.S. House panel in 2008 that he hadn’t used performance-enhancing drugs.