After several weeks of what often sounded like pointless, boring testimony, things are finally heating up for the prosecutors in the Clemens case:
One in 173 trillion, eh? I guess upon hearing that we know what Rusty Hardin’s cross-examination is going to look like:
A forensic scientist testified that two cotton balls and a syringe needle allegedly saved after a steroids injection tested positive for Roger Clemens’ DNA, a key moment on Friday as the government tries to prove the former pitcher used performance-enhancing drugs.
Alan Keel told jurors that the DNA on both cotton balls were “unique to one person who has ever lived on the planet” - Clemens. He said one of the cotton balls had a random match possibility of one in 15.4 trillion for Clemens’ DNA, and the other had one in 173 trillion, when comparing to the population of white people in the U.S.
One in 173 trillion, eh? I guess upon hearing that we know what Rusty Hardin’s cross-examination is going to look like:
Seriously, though, this is not good for Clemens. Maybe his best hope is that the jury has been totally numbed to everything by now.
