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Still more on lying, Clemens, Bonds and equal justice

By Douglas A. Berman

This New York Times commentary, headlined "Justice Will Be Served Only if Clemens Isn?t Given a Pass," echoes points I have been making about the need for equal steroid justice.  Here are excerpts: What we all know now is that someone was lying. And at this juncture, that someone would seem to be Clemens. We?re not talking about razor-thin, ?I thought it was flaxseed oil? types of lies before a federal grand jury, which is what Barry Bonds stands accused of. We?re talking about potentially whopping lies before Congress, before the world.... If there is fair and equal justice under the law, Clemens should become the next super athlete, after Marion Jones and Bonds, to be pursued by [government agents] to the end of the earth...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 16, 2008 (boomark / email).