Bonds Guilty Of Obstruction; Mistrial On Perjury
The jury in the Barry Bonds trial found him guilty of obstruction of justice on Wednesday, but the judge declared a mistrial on several perjury charges.
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The jury in the Barry Bonds trial found him guilty of obstruction of justice on Wednesday, but the judge declared a mistrial on several perjury charges.
A 12-day trial and nearly four days of jury deliberations, and it feels like the dog is still out in the yard chasing its tail.
Barry Bonds was found guilty of obstruction, but the jury in Bonds' case could not come to an accord on perjury, which cracks the door open for his Hall of Fame chances.
So after all that time and all that money, the government couldn't even prove that Barry Bonds knew he used steroids.
Eight women and four men closed the door to the jury room Tuesday morning and will again try to reach a verdict on the four charges pending against Bonds.
A transcript of the testimony from Barry Bonds' personal shopper was read back to the jury at the slugger's perjury trial on Monday.
The jurors who will decide Barry Bonds' fate filed back into the courtroom with their first questions Friday, and they were ones that had to make prosecutors happy.
A prosecutor told a federal jury Thursday that Barry Bonds lied to a grand jury in 2003 because he was using steroids to build his home-run records.
Barry Bonds' defense team decided not to call any witnesses in the former slugger's perjury trial, and instead rested its case just minutes after the judge tossed one of five counts against Bonds.
A federal judge barred the jury in the Barry Bonds' trial from hearing a new tape recording prosecutors claimed bolsters their case that the slugger knowingly took steroids.
Testimony in the Barry Bonds perjury trial was postponed until at least Tuesday because one of the jurors has called in sick, suffering from gallstones.
Prosecutors called Barry Bonds' orthopedic surgeon to the witness stand Thursday at the home-run slugger's perjury trial -- but they may wish they hadn't.
Former New York Yankee Randy Velarde testified Wednesday that he purchased a performance-enhancing drug from Barry Bonds' personal trainer throughout the 2002 season.
The former head trainer for the San Francisco Giants told the jury in Barry Bonds' perjury trial Tuesday that the home-run champion became significantly more muscular during the 1999 season.
Barry Bonds' former mistress was scheduled to testify this week when the slugger's trial resumes.
Barry Bonds' estranged childhood friend underwent cross examination with the slugger's attorney attempting to portray Steve Hoskins as a revenge-seeker.
Canseco said he hasn't started following the trial, but plans to keep an eye on the proceedings in San Francisco. Canseco said Bonds isn't the only former major leaguer who has lied under oath.
The government's star witness in the Barry Bonds perjury trial has testified that he saw the home run king's personal trainer leave Bonds' spring training bedroom with a syringe in 2000.
A prosecutor told jurors that Barry Bonds could easily have answered questions truthfully about steroids, but didn't. Meantime, Bonds' trainer again refused to testify.
A jury was chosen in federal court in San Francisco Monday afternoon in the perjury trial of home-run champion and former San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds.
Barry Bonds ' perjury trial starts Monday in federal court in San Francisco and the judge who will preside over the case has earned a reputation as a fair and unflappable presence on the bench.
More than seven years after he testified to a federal grand jury that he never knowingly took performance-enhancing drugs, home run leader Barry Bonds will go on trial Monday in the same federal courthouse in San Francisco.
In the final pretrial hearing before Barry Bonds' perjury trial on Monday, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled that prosecutors can't use evidence of 11 allegedly threatening voice mail messages the baseball slugger left for a former girlfriend.
Barry Bonds' lawyers in his perjury trial are objecting to the introduction of voice mails the former baseball star left with his girlfriend.
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