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Federal Prosecutors taking Barry Bonds Perjury Case to Trial ? 18 U.S.C. Section 1623

By Walin & Klarich

Federal prosecutors are going forward with their perjury case against former MLB star Barry Bonds. This may be a surprise move by the prosecutors after the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a San Francisco federal judge?s ruling excluding crucial evidence to the prosecution?s case on hearsay grounds. The excluded evidence included certain blood and urine test results that the government could not link to Bonds. The government?s best chance of linking the test results to Bonds is to have Bonds? friend and personal trainer, Greg Anderson, testify. Anderson has refused to testify and is serving jail time for that decision. Both sides stated the earliest a trial date can be set would be in March 2011. Prosecutors must prove that Bonds lied when he told a grand jury that he did not knowingly use anabolic steroids and human growth hormone...continue to full post

Full post as published by Southern California Criminal Defense Blog on August 03, 2010 (boomark / email).