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More on Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, perjury prosecutions and race concerns

By Douglas A. Berman

This new Bloomberg news piece, which quotes many former federal prosecutors, has me thinking again about racial disparities if Roger Clemens is not very soon subject to the same kind of criminal charges that are now facing Barry Bonds.  Here are snippets:Roger Clemens may have risked a perjury prosecution with his sworn denials to a U.S. congressional committee investigating performance-enhancing drugs, lawyers following the case said.... Clemens may find that his denials of drug use play well with his fans, said Sam Buell, a former federal prosecutor who now teaches law at Washington University in St. Louis. They may also expose him to a criminal prosecution that could have been avoided, he said. "He's the one who's created venue for possible charges of lying,'' Buell said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 14, 2008 (boomark / email).