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On Wednesday, it will be exactly 52 months since Roger Clemens told a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives that he had never used performance-enhancing drugs.

Testimony from Roger Clemens' wife may distract the jury even as it contradicts his accuser.

WASHINGTON -- No one would ever suggest that a press conference is the highest and best form of communication, but the Roger Clemens press conference in January 2008 after the release of the Mitchell Report may have been a low point in the long and r...

Brian McNamee's estranged wife credibly contradicts his testimony in nearly every way.

Clemens defense team leaves nothing to chance, has prosecution scrambling

WASHINGTON -- Addressing a group of 13 jurors who profess to have little interest in baseball, Major League Baseball lifer Phil Garner took them on a tour of baseball arcana on Thursday that any baseball fan would have paid to see. It came as the R...

WASHINGTON -- As the Roger Clemens legal team on Wednesday presented a fascinating and entertaining baseball seminar to the federal jury that will decide whether Clemens is guilty of perjury, the prosecutors must have known they were in trouble. ...

WASHINGTON -- In a matter of a few hours Tuesday, the jury in the Roger Clemens perjury trial heard dramatically divergent descriptions of the two principal characters in the courtroom drama -- one on the way up and the other on the way down. Fir...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- There is no World Series for crime fighters and defense lawyers, but if there were, it would look a lot like the Roger Clemens perjury trial. It has featured both brilliant plays and embarrassing errors, and it's heading for a sev...

WASHINGTON -- As the jurors in the Roger Clemens perjury trial completed their 22nd day and listened to the 21st government witness, they were increasingly restive, demanding and skeptical. In questions that the jurors submitted to three witnesses T...

WASHINGTON -- Desperately seeking something that would support their star witness after a brutal cross-examination, the federal prosecutors in the Roger Clemens trial are attempting a rarely used maneuver. And it looks like it might work. Prosecuto...

The Roger Clemens perjury trial, in its sixth week, has thus far put two (since dismissed) jurors asleep, included testimony from a beer can expert, led to dozens of objections by attorneys and had jurors discerning between "bloody shots" and "booty ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Responding to a withering attack on their most important witness, federal prosecutors now suggest that they should be permitted to tell the jury in the Roger Clemens perjury trial that former trainer Brian McNamee offered evidence...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Most trial lawyers would be happy when a cross-examination raises the possibility that an adverse witness is guilty of a lie or two. In nearly seven hours of interrogation of former Roger Clemens trainer Brian McNamee on Thur...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Only 45 minutes into his cross-examination of former Roger Clemens trainer Brian McNamee, attorney Rusty Hardin deftly placed a huge, hand-lettered poster board next to McNamee with the words "MISTAKE," "BAD MEMORY" and "LIE" in b...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The air in the courtroom was stifling. The judge was increasingly impatient. The questions were repetitive. Members of the large audience were glancing at the clock again and again. There was nothing about it that would ever be pa...