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Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24, 1964) is an American former Major League Baseball outfielder. Bonds played from 1986 to 2007, for the Pittsburgh Pirates and San Francisco Giants.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Barry Bonds has asked a federal appeals court to toss out his felony obstruction conviction, arguing it was based on his rambling — but truthful — answer to a grand jury question about whether his trainer ever provided him with an injectable substance.
Responding to the jury, the Major League Baseball's career home runs leader replied that he was a "celebrity child," rather than answering the question directly. Bonds' father was Bobby Bonds, a 13-year major league veteran and three-time All Star.A jury decided after a roughly three-week trial last year that the answer represented an obstruction of justice. The jury deadlocked on three other charges alleging Bonds lied to a grand jury when he denied knowing taking performance-enhancing drugs. Prosecutors dismissed those counts, bringing an anticlimactic end to their eight-year pursuit of Bonds.Bonds attorneys filed a 60-page legal brief filed Thursday with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. His counsel stressed that federal investiga...Former Major League Baseball star Barry Bonds was sentenced to 30 days of house arrest and 2 years probation on Friday for his federal conviction of obstruction of j...
Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to send former baseball slugger Barry Bonds to prison.In court documents filed late Thursday, prosecutors objected to a recomm...
Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to send former baseball slugger Barry Bonds to prison.In court documents filed late Thursday, prosecutors objected to a recomm...
Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to send former baseball slugger Barry Bonds to prison.In court documents filed late Thursday, prosecutors objected to a recomm...
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Federal prosecutors are urging a judge to send former baseball slugger Barry Bonds to prison.In court documents filed late Thursday, prosecutors objected to a recomm...
Barry Bonds ' lawyers are still working to persuade a federal judge in San Francisco to throw out the home run king's obstruction of justice conviction or grant him ...
Barry Bonds ' obstruction of justice conviction was upheld Friday by a federal judge, who denied the former baseball star's motion for a new trial or acquittal on th...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A jury verdict finding baseball home run king Barry Bonds guilty of obstructing justice in a steroids investigation should be thrown out, h...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Thursday said they had not decided whether to retry baseball homerun king Barry Bonds on charges of lying to a grand ju...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The government on Wednesday dismissed three counts of perjury against home-run king Barry Bonds that had left jurors deadlocked in his tria...
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