Lawyer Tries to Put Clemens Accuser on Trial Chided by the judge for what he called a confusing and mostly pointless cross-examination, Roger Clemens' lawyer is finally turning after 19 hours to his central accusation: that Brian McNamee doctored physical evidence to frame the former star pitcher. Broaching the subject at the end of the day Thursday, lawyer Rusty Hardin put up a picture of the gauze, needles and tissues that McNamee says he had used to inject Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs, along with the Miller Lite beer can in which he stored some of the evidence. McNamee, Clemens' former strength and conditioning coach, said the can came from the recycling bin in Clemens' apartment. Clemens is accused of lying to Congress when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs. McNamee testified this week that he injected the seven-time Cy Young Award winner with steroids and human growth hormone. Hardin didn't get far before the court recessed until Friday. He did get McNamee to acknowledge that he never saw Clemens drink a light beer. The lawyer intends to attack the integrity of the physical evidence, which is key to the government case. Prosecutors say evidence will show the materials contain steroids and Clemens' DNA. Hardin insinuated that McNamee manufactured the evidence after Clemens' televised denials of steroids use. After signing autographs, former Major League Baseball pitcher Roger Clemens leaves federal court, Thursday, May 17, 2012, in Washington. AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari "All of a sudden, the person being accused is fighting back," Hardin said, "and you have to figure out some way to save yourself." Defense lawyers have said that they will attack the chain of custody of the materials, which McNamee said he stored at his house from 2001 until 2008, when he and his lawyers turned the evidence over to federal authorities. The Clemens team has also suggested that McNamee put the steroids in the needle after injecting Clemens and that McNamee had instead used the needle to inject Clemens with vitamin B12. Clemens has maintained for years that he received B12 shots and the local anesthetic lidocaine but not performance-enhancing drugs. Earlier Thursday, Hardin tried to prove that it was McNamee who was the real liar. For example, Hardin brought up the time that McNamee told federal investigators he didn't have any physical evidence that Clemens did steroids. You lied to them, didn't you? "Absolutely," McNamee said. "And you haven't been charged with a crime," Hardin said. Sometimes McNamee admitted lying; other times he said he had "minimized" or "exaggerated" or "embellished." For example, McNamee has admitted he initially told federal investigators he had only injected Clemens four times in 1998, only to say later it was eight to 10. That was a lie, wasn't it? Hardin charged. "I'm having a problem with the 'lie' thing," McNamee said. Throughout, the witness was even-keeled, never getting too excited. Hardin took an angry and condescending tone with McNamee. He started many questions with, "Isn't it true ..." McNamee seemed to delight in needling his inquisitor. After a series of rapid-fire questions, he said, "I'm trying to keep up, man." To one aggressive question which began "Are you saying ...," he replied, "That's exactly what I'm saying."