Mr. Hardin said again and again that the case should not have been brought because Congress had overstepped its bounds. After the verdict, his defense team spoke with three jurors, who said they believed Mr. Clemens never used drugs, according to Mr. Hardin.
"They believed the whole thing was an abuse of the process," Mr. Hardin said of the jurors.
In the end, the trial became Mr. Clemens's word against that of Mr. McNamee, who claimed he injected Mr. Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs. Mr. Clemens said Mr. McNamee injected him with only vitamin B12 and the painkiller lidocaine.
Prosecutors conceded that Mr. McNamee was a flawed witness but said that they had enough corroboration of his story to elicit a conviction. The defense said he "cooked the books" to set up Mr. Clemens for a fall.
