Could Roger Be Charged With Perjury?

FROM ABCNEWS.COM

Clemens' lawyers denied that possibility in the strongest of terms and objected to Waxman's questions about whether Clemens had contacted a potential witness.

"Roger Clemens certainly did not commit perjury,'' Rusty Hardin told reporters yesterday. "No sane man would subject himself to that unless he was telling the truth."

Others disagree. "He did terribly -- what killed him was the fact that [Andy] Pettitte totally verified the credibility of McNamee," said Katherine Darmer, a former federal prosecutor and current law professor at Chapman University.

"Looking at it from a lawyer's perspective," she added, "they could go after him for perjury and witness tampering. When you can't pursue someone for the underlying bad thing, they fall back on perjury and witness tampering. Look at Barry Bonds, Scooter Libby, Martha Stewart."

Darmer said she thought that McNamee's reputation as a liar would not prevent federal prosecutors from using him as an effective witness.

"You get bad guys by using bad guys," she explained. "If you get a guy who shot someone in their basement, you have to find somebody else involved in the wrongdoing, not Mother Theresa. I was impressed with him as a corroborating witness."

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