“Brian McNamee was not a strong enough witness to render a verdict of guilty against Roger Clemens,” said juror Bradford Weaver. “The witnesses for the prosecution were, uh, how does one put it? — kind of wanting if you will …. It was quite lacking. If that’s what they were going to go with, then they should probably not have pursued the case in the first place, if that’s all they had.”
This seems to have been the sentiment of many of the jurors, who reportedly deliberated for less then 10 hours and were unanimous from the start.
“Seven years of garbage?” scoffed juror Robinson-Paul regarding the syringe evidence. “That had to be tested against the test of time in a beer can. Plus, it was devious on his part.” The jurors had suspicions that McNamee was attempted some sort of blackmail against his former friend. “His story should not have changed so many times, Robinson-Paul said. “It kept vacillating, it kept changing. It was just incredible….We felt the government did not prove their case. Not by a long shot.”
“We were asking ourselves, ‘Why did they just continue to carry this on for so long?” reported a female juror. “Why for five years? It just seemed out of proportion.”