Bonds Found Guilty Of Obstruction Of Justice

[robdogbucky]

Source: KTVU Television news website

Updated: 2:37 pm PDT April 13, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal court jury Wednesday found home-run king Barry Bonds guilty of obstructing justice, but deadlocked on the three other counts of lying to a grand jury in a case that stretched over several years and cost millions to prepare.

Federal Judge Susan Illston accepted the single verdict and declared a mistrial on the other three.

Bonds, Major League Baseball’s all-time home run king, had been charged with three counts of lying during his 2003 testimony before a grand jury investigating the BALCO lab scandal. A catchall charge of obstructing justice was also added by federal prosecutors.

During the trial Bonds defense team never denied the retired slugger had used performance enhancing drugs during his playing career. Instead they maintained, as did Bonds throughout his grand jury testimony, that he did not knowingly take them....

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[Drale]

1. I hope they give him a HUUUUGE fine

because I doubt he'll get jail time. I really dislike Bonds, always have even back when he was playing. He always seemed like an ass, and that he thought he was better then everyone else.

[azmesa207]

3. What I wonder

is why when baseball were interview bu congress and had to do so under oath and all the corporation big wigs and and politician that work for Bush were never prosecuted for there lies.

[tabasco]

7. He was definitely an asshole

when he played in Pittsburgh.

[Bennyboy]

2. WOOHOOO! the LAWYERS WIN>>>AGAIN!

mistrial too! More billable hours!

[jmowreader]

4. Fuck this case. Really.

Barry Bonds hit baseballs for a living. The lies he told about taking steroids--which everyone in baseball except the Seattle Mariners did during the Steroid Era, and they should have--killed exactly zero people. They impoverished exactly zero people--in fact, one could argue the lies enriched some people, because people were going out to the ballpark to watch Bonds hit. But because baseball holds some mystical place in American society, so we had to spend millions in money we don't have to protect the "purity" of the game.

George W. Bush started a war based on lies. The lies he told killed five thousand Americans, probably a million Iraqis, the American economy and our standing in the world. And we haven't spent a wooden nickel to prosecute him.

[DCKit]

5. What you said. nt

[CanonRay]

6. Mr Asterisk

I hope they delete all his stats from baseball.