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Barry Bonds’ defense team must be pretty confident because they rested without calling any witnesses to the stand. Their confidence is no doubt also buoyed by the fact that the federal government dropped one of the perjury charges against MLB’s all-time homerun leader.
It would not surprise me in the least if Bonds is acquitted on the four remaining charges (three counts of perjury and one for obstruction of justice.) If the feds had a better case against Bonds it would not have taken them nearly three and a half years to bring the case to trial.
Closing arguments are expected to take place tomorrow. I expect a swift verdict.
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Sean| 4.6.11 @ 5:32PM
I hope he is acquitted mainly for the fact of the government sticking its nose into this stuff. I could care less if some guy rubs cream on his legs.
LiveFreeOrDie| 4.6.11 @ 5:39PM
"If the feds had a better case against Bonds it would not have taken them nearly three and a half years to bring the case to trial."
No, not unless he was the sole target of an investigation. In this case he was only a part of an investigation which could have been hampered by premature charges.
Why aren't we discussing whether congress or any federal agency has cause or authority to investigate the MLB in the first place?
Pete| 4.6.11 @ 6:15PM
What a joke this all is. Of course he did roids and everyone knows it. This "acquittal" will change no one's mind. It will just allow him to strut around saying woe is me. So lame.
God Is Truth| 4.6.11 @ 7:01PM
Who really cares? It won't change the fact that arrogant, surly cheats like Bonds drove me & others like me away from MLB permanently. I'd much rather spend my money watching minor league ball or go watch little leaguers who enjoy the game without zillion dollar contracts & doping to enhance their performance. MLB is a sham like the WWF. MLB's embrace of phonies like Bonds will eventually be their undoing. I have't seen a MLB game in almost seven years & don't miss it in the least. Barry Bonds personifies everything wrong with MLB. Until MLB puts the game itself above the almighty dollar & they start truly disciplining those who break the rules they can keep their cheapened product.
Real American| 4.6.11 @ 9:16PM
he might get pinched on the charge of only having his doctor inject him. other than that, the prosecutors did a crappy job with their case and deserve to lose. 2 of their big witnesses destroyed their case (Hoskins was an awful witness, and Ting contradicted what Hoskins testified to). He won't do any time. Glad to get it all behind us, as the case has been a colossal waste of taxpayer money.
Paul McGrath| 4.6.11 @ 10:16PM
He committed perjury. He lied to a grand jury. Perjury is against the law.
But on another level, he, and many others, damaged, perhaps irrevocably, a cultural institution. Professional major league baseball has essentially remained unchanged for more than a hundred years. Of the ten greatest home run hitters of all time, four of them--four, forty-percent--used steroids during the steroid era. The twelvth and fourteenth--Manny Ramirez and Rafeael Palmeiro--used them as well. Six of the top fourteen used steroids.
Bonds broke the law. Perhaps a legal smack to his face might help to restore some minimal respect to baseball, and some minimal respect in this country to the rule of law.
Will| 4.7.11 @ 4:56AM
Where's Turk Wendell when we need his input?
What fascinates me is that Anderson dude, you know, the one who keeps going to jail? What do you have to pay a man to sit in jail, what sort of control do you need over his life to get him to keep walking in that door?
Wayne | 4.7.11 @ 11:16AM
The guy destroyed baseball. I guess that is punishment enough.
Eric Damon| 4.7.11 @ 9:07PM
Hey Paul, you don't have any more proof that Barry Bonds lied about knowingly using steroids than the feds have! Personally, after reading "Game of Shadows" I have no doubt that Barry Bonds knew EXACTLY what he was using the whole time. But in court it's not what you know, it's what you can prove...and the feds cannot prove that Bonds lied to the grand jury.
Look at the witnesses they trotted out in front of the jury and their testimony: an ex-girlfriend who testified that Bonds had shrinking gonads; several baseball players who testified that Greg Anderson gave THEM steroids; a former housekeeper who claims that Bonds told her, unsolicited, that Anderson was injecting him with undetectable 'roids; a business manager whose testimony that Dr. Ting discussed Bonds' steroid use with him...which was then contradicted by that doctor... And at the end of it all, what do you have? What you DON'T have is one witness that can prove that Bonds lied to the grand jury! This was a he-said-she-said, but no one can positively say that Bonds was lying in his grand jury testimony.
Bonds may be a jerk, but at the end of the day, he's probably going home with an acquittal.