December 16, 2011, 12:07 PM
Barry Bonds, holder of baseball’s career home run record and former San Francisco Giants superstar, was put on probation today for obstructing justice in the BALCO steroids scandal. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston rejected a plea by federal prosecutors to punish Bonds with a 15-month...
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December 15, 2011, 12:05 AM
Bicycle racer Tammy Thomas lied to a grand jury about her use of steroids, then fought perjury charges in court. Convicted, she was sentenced to house arrest. It was the same story for elite track coach Trevor Graham, who lied to a federal agent trying to unpack the BALCO steroids scandal:...
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December 9, 2011, 7:43 AM
Federal prosecutors want former San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds to serve 15 months in prison for obstructing their probe into the BALCO steroids scandal. In documents filed late yesterday, the legal team that prosecuted baseball’s home run king urged Judge Susan Illston to...
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December 6, 2011, 6:19 PM
A federal probation officer says former San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds should not be required to serve prison time for his conviction on a charge of obstruction of justice, Bonds’ lawyer revealed in a filing today. Bonds was found guilty in April for evading a federal grand...
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October 25, 2011, 12:05 AM
From 2000 to 2004, the Oakland Athletics were the greatest baseball team that never won the pennant. Film fans can get that idea from “Moneyball,” the new Brad Pitt movie about Billy Beane, the club’s computer-genius general manager. In that stretch, the A’s won 98...
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August 25, 2011, 4:55 PM
UPDATE: This post was updated with coverage of the hearing Thursday A federal judge said today she would rule in writing on baseball slugger Barry Bonds’ plea to overturn his felony conviction from a trial on steroid-related perjury charges. At a hearing in federal court in San...
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June 23, 2011, 10:41 AM
A federal judge rejected a demand by Barry Bonds’ attorneys today to force prosecutors to reveal whether they intend to retry the home run king for perjury. Bonds was found guilty in April on one count of obstruction of justice for testimony he gave to a grand jury investigating a...
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April 19, 2011, 12:05 AM
He hadn’t played a ball game in three years. Nine years had elapsed since a federal drug raid first linked his name to steroids. Nevertheless, until the moment when the jury brought back its muddled verdict (guilty of obstruction, deadlock on perjury), the trial of Barry Bonds provoked...
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April 13, 2011, 8:56 PM
Bonds began using steroids after the 1998 season, according to evidence in the BALCO case. Before that, he was a .290 hitter with speed and good power, as a composite view of his first 13 seasons in the major leagues shows.
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April 13, 2011, 8:54 PM
The biggest target of the BALCO investigation was Barry Bonds, former Giants slugger and baseball’s all-time home run leader. But from the 2003 federal drug raid on the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative in Burlingame to Bonds' 2011 trial on perjury charges, an unlikely cast of elite athletes,...
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April 13, 2011, 2:57 PM
Barry Bonds, the former Giants slugger and baseball’s home run champion, was found guilty of obstruction of justice Wednesday for giving evasive answers to a federal grand jury that was questioning him about his use of performance-enhancing drugs. The jury deadlocked on three...
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April 12, 2011, 4:29 PM
The jury in the Barry Bonds perjury trial deliberated for a third day today without reaching a verdict. The panel of eight women and four men made no requests of Judge Susan Illston, who presided over the trial in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. The jury began work shortly after 8:30 a.m...
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April 11, 2011, 5:35 PM
The jury in the Barry Bonds perjury trial heard a reading of key testimony Monday, then deliberated for the rest of the day without announcing a verdict. After getting the case on Friday, the eight women and four men on the panel had told Judge Susan Illston they wanted to listen again to the...
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April 9, 2011, 6:08 PM
For Barry Bonds’ jury, it can’t be an easy call. They’ve been asked to sort out a fiercely contested legal fight in which the evidence – depending on how it’s viewed – could support either an outright exoneration or a cascade of guilty verdicts. If the...
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April 8, 2011, 4:37 PM
Barry Bonds’ jury listened intently to a recording of trainer Greg Anderson describing the banned drugs he said he was providing to the former Giants star in 2003. After that, the panel asked federal Judge Susan Illston for a reading of the testimony of former personal shopper Kathy...
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