Rusty Hardin’s argument: there are no changes in physical appearance of Roger Clemens

Every baseball fan knows that Roger Clemens is accused in obstruction of justice. It is said that he has lied before Congress about application of steroids and HGH.
Rusty Hardin, the attorney that was hired by Roger Clemens to defend him, noted that Roger Clemens’ physical appearance didn’t change greatly before, during and after his working with the trainer Brian McNamee. The attorney claimed that this aspect was a proof that Roger Clemens hadn’t applied steroids and other related products.
Increase of muscle mass is ordinarily used by federal prosecutors as proof that a person administers steroids or/and other related products. But this tendency was not utilized during the governmental case against Roger Clemens. No one could affirm that Roger Clemens’ muscles manifested that he had taken steroids and HGH. It is one of differences between the cases against Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds.
When it comes to the governmental case against Barry Bonds, prosecutors called many persons in the trial that could testify that anabolic steroids caused substantial changes in physical appearance of this athlete. They considered that intake of steroids caused increase of muscle size, enhanced size of the head and testicular shrinkage in Barry Bonds.
Thus, the defense attorney Rusty Hardin presented four photos of Roger Clemens. The pictures manifested physical appearance of Roger Clemens, including the time when Clemens was working with the coach Brain McNamee. Hardin pointed out that the pictures manifested that there were no changes in physical appearance that could support that he utilized steroids and HGH.
The attorney Rusty Hardin claimed that the pictures displayed just the process of ageing. The masseur Cheryl Redfern noticed that she didn’t observe any changes in physical appearance of Roger Clemens. Roger Clemens experienced neither back acne, nor gynecomastia, nor dramatically enhanced muscles.
Phil Garner, a former baseball player, also confirmed that there were not any essential changes in physical appearance and performance of Roger Clemens during working with the coach Brian McNamee.
Steve Durham, the Assistant US Attorney put efforts to discredit the argument about lack of changes in Roger Clemens’ physical appearance during the cross-examination of Phil Garner. He noted that while several steroids enhanced muscle mass, others didn’t induce increasing muscles. So, he affirmed that the photos could display nothing about steroid use.
Feds desire to take advantages in both cases: in the case against Roger Clemens and in that against Barry Bonds. While they claim that physical changes in Barry Bonds display that he has taken steroids, lack of physical changes in Roger Clemens doesn’t prove that he hasn’t used steroids.