WASHINGTON--A mostly female jury with little interest in baseball will decide whether Congress former pitching star Roger Clemens lied when he said that he used never use performance-enhancing drugs.

The judges took their seats Tuesday are a woman, whose cousin, former outfielder Al Bumbry, coach for the Boston Red Sox, was when Clemens played for the team. Another woman on the jury, said she believes Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick was "done wrong" in his criminal conviction for dogfighting.

The jury was after four days of US District Judge Reggie Walton and lawyers for both sides in question. Clemens defense team said that the seven time Cy Young starts Award winner his defense through interviews with the decency lawmakers study whether Clemens used performance-enhancing drugs. Opening arguments are scheduled for Wednesday.

Both sides seemed with a blank slate to start and judges, the many pre-conceived ideas about the case or Clemens itself not searched. If the Eagles fan, said during questioning that know not she replied Hardin something about baseball, Clemens lawyer rusty, "this is a plus."

The jury includes a 22-year-old budding fashion designer, working two part-time jobs and cares for her young daughter and an older woman, who said, their three times that they do not keep week dialysis treatments are participating in the study.

An another juror is a yoga teacher and lawyer, who said that she finds U.S. drug laws "a bit bumbling."

The two sides threw the maximum number of 20 people before the jury of 10 women and two men along with four alternatives were. The jurors even was not said, are among them alternatives, but she said, to avoid news and sports programs. To make sure that the Panel said dozens of journalists at the courthouse, meeting with the judges meet them, you in a safe place every day, be transported in a back entrance and use non-public corridors. They are served breakfast and lunch in what a judge was once Chambers, so that they do not have to use the cafeteria, where journalists, lawyers and Clemens to take their meals.

Clemens sat and watched the final jury to get selection but not in weight and his lawyers, who will decide his fate is left. His wife, Debbie, back to home in Houston with her sons after being in court last week, Hardin said. They will witness in the defense of her husband and shall visit not to study up to, after she testified, a fact which explains Hardin judges that otherwise could issues, where she was.

Clemens lawyer Michael Attanasio revealed Tuesday that Clemens plans to interview, if legislators investigating whether he used performance enhancing drugs was proper at first his defense.

Attanasio said the hearing held by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee had nothing to do with the Congress responsible for legislation in February 2008. He said that the hearing concerned only with a "credibility contest" air between Clemens and his long-time trainer, Brian McNamee, who said he injected the pitcher with steroids and human growth hormone.

Clemens lawyer rusty Hardin says that it was hard for family members, remain calm about criticism. (AP) Clemens denies these claims and deposit amount is perjury, false statements and obstruction of Congress. The obstruction count charges Clemens make with 15 false or misleading statements to the Committee, including its repeated denials that he take not performance-enhancing drugs during his career 24 season and even whether he is a 1998 pool party in Toronto Blue Jays teammate Jose Canseco visited House in Miami.

McNamee says that he saw Clemens and approved steroid users speak at a party with another man, Canseco from and that she asked Clemens for Canada McNamee to inject him for the first time with steroids returned. Clemens and Canseco said Clemens was never at the party but was playing golf at the time. Attanasio, that dispute suggests how the entire investigation was faulty and said that the jury should be able to determine whether a "he said, he said debate" between Clemens and McNamee was a legitimate concern of the Congress.

"We go to the a mini trial have on whether Roger Clemens in the Mr Canseco House went swimming," Attanasio said. "We have a trial in U.S. District Court, is Congress must for a hearing on these things?" "That's our point."

Assistant for the U.S. Attorney Daniel Butler replied that the Committee responsible, which is wide and legislation goes. He said steroids in baseball is a drug question and pointed out that a 2005 hearing on the issue led to to the law of steroids, and major league baseball to a report by former Senator George Mitchell in the extent of the problem in the League of the Commission raised.

The Mitchell report was released in December 2007 and with the name of Clemens and 85 other current and former ballplayers than drugs. Clemens denies the accusations and Butler pointed out that the leaders of the House Committee said that they needed, Clemens denials to investigate to determine what weight to give the Mitchell report and its recommendations.

US District Judge Reggie Walton said when "an icon of baseball" exception of the Mitchell report was, "it seems to me that Congress the power has, hearings, to determine which view is correct."

Attanasio said the problem in testimony from the first two witnesses to treat, the prosecutors call after opening arguments Wednesday morning to. He said the first his house followed Clemens assesses parliamentarian Charles Johnson, Phil Barnett, the Chief Counsel for the Committee at the time it was retired.

Walton also said he was excited, news to read Government criticised Clemens family members on McNamee and other witnesses have an element of the New York daily Twitter and elsewhere online. The judge has a gag order involved in the case, but he said that he have no authority over anyone not in front of him and hopes that those who were not involved. Clemens Attorney rusty Hardin said he would look into it, but that it was "very difficult" for Clemens family see harsh criticism of the baseball star, online and in the media and will not be able to respond.

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