Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Barry Bonds Guilty On Obstruction Of Justice, Jury Divided On Other Charges

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/13/barry-bonds-guilty-obstruction-justice_n_848837.html

Barry Bonds Guilty On Obstruction Of Justice, Jury Divided On Other Charges
Barry Bonds Verdict
By PAUL ELIAS 04/13/11 05:53 PM ET AP
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Bonds was found guilty of obstruction of justice but a jury failed to reach a verdict on three other counts that the home run king lied to a grand jury in 2003 when he specifically denied that he knowingly used steroids and human growth hormone.
Following a 12-day trial and almost four full days of deliberation, a jury could not reach a unanimous vote on three of four counts, a messy end to a case that put the slugger in the spotlight for more than three years.
Bonds sat stone-faced through the verdict, displaying no emotion.
The case also represented the culmination of the federal investigation into the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative steroids ring. Federal prosecutors and the Justice Department will have to decide whether to retry Bonds on the unresolved counts.

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