Feds, grand jury, apparently targeting Armstrong for doping

That 2004 test and the results have nothing to do with the anyone ever indicted because of Novitzky.

If that is your proof that he's crooked -- which suggests, he creates false cases against innocent people with manufactured evidence -- you are really going to have to try again. How many times does a higher court disallow some search or seizure? It doesn't mean the cops are crooked. It means they pushed the limit and a court pushed it back.

The results of those 2004 tests are what they are. Novitzky didn't manufacture evidence -- that is what crooked suggests, when you use the word over and over again.

If that is your proof that he's crooked, good luck garnering any sympathy. He didn't create those failed test results. And he wasn't the idiot at the MLB Players Assn. who didn't destroy the evidence immediately, rather than keeping the samples and records around in an attempt to try to bring the number of positive tests down, so it wouldn't reach the 5 percent threshold that triggered permanent testing.

The fact that those positive results were sitting around to be seized in the first place is because of the stupidity of the players themselves, who didn't insist the evidence of their drug use (in a test they knew was coming!) be destroyed immediately. It's hard to feel much sympathy, even if a court did invalidate the actual seizure of the positive tests.

The court didn't rule that the 104 failed tests were made up or manufactured by Novitzky, though. Agree?

 

21, Hmmm. He's a grandstander. He loves publicity. He has gone after these cases with a giant boner. He's a dog with a bone.

I just really hate the characterizations that make him into a liar or a criminal. Has Novitzky manufactured any evidence? Was Victor Conte guilty? Marion Jones? Trevor Graham? Tammy Thomas? Did Novitzky falsely get them convicted on made up evidence?

I understand the sentiment, if someone feels this way, that these cases are giant waste of time and limited resources. But Cranberry, never stops there.

 

If he can prove Armstrong doped, it will be charges that he (and possibly his teammates, owners, managers, etc.) "conspired to defraud their sponsors by doping to improve their performance and win more money and prizes." The part in quotes is from the Times story.

 

All of these prosecutions are pretty weak. The fact that they involve high-profile athletes who seemingly have achieved success, wealth and fame with the help of a lie, is the only thing that provides the sense of justice some people see in it. Barry Bonds is being prosecuted for perjury. That's pretty weak stuff, too. The only way you can see any justice in it, is if you see it as a de facto prosecution of Bonds for using PEDs to break the record and then refusing to come clean about the drug use.

If you're not of the mindset that these prosecutions accomplish a goal of forcing the athletes to be honest and accountable and admit that they lied, yeah, I can see thinking these investigations and prosecutions are a waste of time and resources. If you think the athletes should have their feet held to the fire because they used and have lied their asses off about it, then Novitzky serves a purpose.