Federal prosecutors are banking that the syringes and cotton swabs, coupled with a laboratory technician's expected testimony saying the materials carried traces of Clemens' DNA, will serve as conclusive physical evidence that the baseball star used performance-enhancing drugs and then lied to Congress when he denied it. The jurors Thursday heard from Jeff Novitsky, a special agent for the Food and Drug Administration who led federal investigations into cyclist Lance Armstrong's alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs and the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative, a manufacturer of performance-enhancing drugs. Novitsky detailed elaborate steps he took to protect the evidence and the chain of custody after it was hand-delivered to him by McNamee on Jan. 10, 2008, during Congress' inquiry into the use of performance-enhancing drugs by major league baseball players. Novitsky also testified at Barry Bonds' perjury trial in California last year, leading to Bonds' conviction on one count of obstruction of justice stemming from his testimony in a 2003 grand jury investigation into drug use in major league baseball.
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