Clemens Likely to Face New Jury Following Mistrial, Lawyers Say
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Major League Baseball veteran Roger Clemens is likely to face another trial on charges of lying to Congress unless his attorneys can show prosecutors deliberately provoked yesterday’s mistrial, lawyers say.
The government’s failure to steer clear of information barred to the jury by the judge’s order probably won’t be enough to keep the seven-time Cy Young award winner from being tried again, said Stanford University criminal law professor Robert Weisberg.