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Barry Bonds Coverage

Daily Report: Public Safety

Judge asks Barry Bonds' trainer to break his silence

March 1, 2011, 5:33 PM
A federal judge urged Barry Bonds’ weight trainer today to break his silence regarding the former Giants star and steroids. At a hearing in U.S. Court in San Francisco, Judge Susan Illston told Greg Anderson, who pleaded guilty to steroid distribution in the BALCO sports doping scandal,... + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

Bonds' sex life should be off limits at perjury trial, his lawyers say

February 25, 2011, 12:05 AM
A former girlfriend’s account of Barry Bonds’ sex life after he allegedly began using steroids would be “lurid, ridiculous, uncorroborated, contradicted and subject to a battle of experts,” lawyers for the former Giants slugger say. In a filing yesterday in U.S.... + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

Bonds prosecutors fight limits on their star witnesses

February 22, 2011, 6:59 PM
Prosecutors today urged a judge not to further restrict their evidence in the Barry Bonds perjury case. In pleadings filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, the prosecutors told Judge Susan Illston that there was no valid reason to limit the testimony of four witnesses who assertedly... + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

Judge asks for plea bargain in Barry Bonds perjury case

February 18, 2011, 1:07 PM
Barry Bonds’ trial judge wants lawyers to strike a plea bargain that would settle the perjury case against baseball’s home run champion without a trial. At a brief hearing today in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, Judge Susan Illston asked Bonds’ legal team and... + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

Government can use secret recording of Bonds' trainer, judge rules

February 15, 2011, 4:01 PM
Barry Bonds’ jury will likely hear part of a secret tape recording of a trainer who claims he provided steroids to the slugger. In a ruling yesterday, U.S. district Court Judge Susan Illston said she was inclined to allow prosecutors to use an edited version of the recording of trainer... + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

Bonds' prosecutors, defense team spar over evidence

February 15, 2011, 12:05 AM
Federal prosecutors don’t want Barry Bonds’ lawyers to argue that the government spent too much money in their seven-year probe of the former Giants slugger’s suspected use of steroids. Bonds’ lawyers, meanwhile, are eager to stop his former girlfriend from testifying... + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

Judge's dilemma: what to tell Bonds' jury about his trainer's silence

February 11, 2011, 2:14 PM
The judge in Barry Bonds’ perjury case wonders what to tell the jury about weight trainer Greg Anderson, who has vowed to go back to prison rather than testify about the former Giants slugger’s alleged steroid use. At a brief hearing Friday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco,... + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

Prosecutors drop 6 perjury counts against Barry Bonds

February 10, 2011, 6:57 PM
Federal prosecutors today pruned back their indictment of former San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds, dropping six felony counts of lying under oath about his alleged use of banned drugs. Bonds now faces four charges of perjury and one charge of obstruction of justice, all in connection... + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

Bonds' lawyers seek to ban secret steroids recording

February 1, 2011, 12:05 AM
In May 2003, before a game against the old Montreal Expos, an acquaintance approached Barry Bonds' weight trainer in the San Francisco Giants’ clubhouse and struck up a conversation. In the nine minutes that followed, trainer Greg Anderson described the undetectable steroids he said... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare, Public Safety

Steroid user's diary tracks how banned drugs are peddled, used

January 28, 2011, 12:05 AM
Slugger Barry Bonds’ trial starts March 21. The trial of fireballing pitcher Roger Clemens will be sometime after that. By then, federal drug agents may have wrapped up their probe of cycling superstar Lance Armstrong. You’d think America’s problem with steroids primarily... + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

Bonds loses motion to block testimony from Giambi and others

January 21, 2011, 1:42 PM
Baseball players who say they got steroids from Barry Bonds’ weight trainer will be permitted to testify at the homerun champion’s upcoming perjury trial, a judge ruled Friday. At a hearing in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, Judge Susan Illston rebuffed a plea from Bonds... + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

On day he homered, Bonds allegedly used banned drugs

January 11, 2011, 12:06 AM
On April 8, 2003, San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds hit his 616th career home run – a bases-empty shot that provided the only real excitement for local fans in a 9-4 loss to the visiting San Diego Padres. Also that day, according to a calendar that federal prosecutors say was... + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

What the 'BALCO All-Stars' would testify at Bonds' trial

January 3, 2011, 12:07 AM
Baseball’s home run king wants to head off that reunion of the "BALCO All-Stars" scheduled for the end of spring training, 2011. On March 22, former San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds is set to go to trial on perjury charges in U.S. District Court. He’s accused of... + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

Feds' perjury case against Clemens is 'stronger' than Bonds' case

August 20, 2010, 12:05 AM
Federal prosecutors are moving a little more quickly against sports stars suspected of using banned drugs. In 2003, Barry Bonds, baseball’s home run king, told a San Francisco grand jury he had never used banned drugs supplied by the BALCO steroids lab. Four years went by before the... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Press-hater Barry Bonds donates $20,000 to journalists

August 16, 2010, 12:05 AM
Slugger Barry’s Bonds’ donation of $20,000 to the National Association of Black Journalists is fraught with irony. Throughout his long and exciting baseball career, the former San Francisco Giants star – now retired and awaiting trial on perjury charges – routinely... + read more
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