Roger Clemens' retrial begins with quest for neutral jury

WASHINGTON -- Roger Clemens stood and uttered "Morning" to the 90 potential jurors who had gathered in the ornate, sixth-floor ceremonial courtroom, the one deemed big enough to hold them all. After he sat down, he swiveled his chair, as if trying to make eye contact with as many as possible.

Some of those looking back had no idea who he was.

The seven-time Cy Young Award winner made some $120 million in salary in his 24-year major league career, but it’s safe to say hardly any of it came from the first slate of District of Columbia residents who could decide whether he lied when he told Congress he had never used steroids or human growth hormone.

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Clemens was back in court Monday in the government’s second attempt to prove that he misled a House committee at a landmark drugs-and-sports hearing in 2008. The first trial last July ended in a mistrial when prosecutors introduced inadmissible evidence after only two witnesses had been called.

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