sports.yahoo.com - 1/15/2009
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It could explain why Barry Bonds ’ attorneys believe the grand jury questions to him were impossibly vague and why the focus of the BALCO case veered from prosecuting distributors of illegal anabolic steroids and money launderers to catching world-class athletes lying about drug use. Taking the ...
sports.yahoo.com - 1/16/2009
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Yes We Can. Just as next Tuesday's inauguration
represents a new political beginning for our nation and...
a chance to re-embrace America's ideals of freedom, justice and equality, this seems like a perfect time for baseball fans to work for a new beginning by getting Barry Bonds back where he belongs.
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With your help, we can bring Barry Bonds back to baseball
sports.yahoo.com - 1/15/2009
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Taking the Clear – BALCO's star drug –
was not a crime, according to expert testimony included...
in grand jury documents. That why grand jury questions to Bonds were impossibly vague and why the focus of the BALCO case veered from prosecuting distributors of illegal drugs to trapping star athletes...
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Bonds blockbuster: ‘The Clear’ was legal
hardballtimes.com - 1/15/2009
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Yahoo!'s Jonathan Littman has a major story today
about the legal status of "The Clear" at the...
time Barry Bonds was asked about it in the course of his grand jury testimony, and suggests that this fact may prove problematic for prosecutors: It could explain why Barry Bonds’ attorneys ...
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The Clear
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Barry Bonds -- Not a Cheater?
Lone Star Ball —
You know how Barry Bonds is supposedly an admitted cheater because he said he used "the Clear" and "the Cream"?
Well, when he was supposedly using them, they apparently weren't illegal:
Taking the Clear – the star drug of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative – was not a crime, according to expert testimony included in grand jury documents.
Not only was the performance-enhancing drug tetrahydrogestrinone (THG) not specifically banned when athletes squirted “The Clear” under their tongues to gain an edge, the testimony ...
The Barry Bonds legal saga takes a twist
The Crawfish Boxes —
... This Yahoo Sports article says that expert testimony before the grand jury investigating BALCO showed that the "clear" supposedly used by Bonds was not illegal under federal law. It was not banned until 2005. From the article: ...
The Clear
The Hardball Times —
Yahoo!'s Jonathan Littman has a major story today about the legal status of "The Clear" at the time Barry Bonds was asked about it in the course of his grand jury testimony, and suggests that this fact may prove problematic for prosecutors: ...
The Clear was legal
Beyond the Box Score —
The Clear was legal
Interesting development here.
Barry Bonds Didn't Sin Afterall
The Outsiders Look at the Insides of Baseball —
Jonathan Littman at Yahoo! Sports writes the first part of a series which will dive into the 30,000 pages of testimony from the BALCO case. The conclusion of this first article in this series, apparently the perjury case against Barry Bonds does not hold as much water as we have been led to believe. I am not incredibly knowledgeable in regards to the justice system and perjury charges; however I have found it interesting that congress found 19 cases in which Bonds lied however are only charging him with 4 acts of perjury. While Bonds simply needs to be found guilty of one of these charges, I would think that the more charges against an individual the ...
The Cream and Clear: Legal?
The Big Lead —
BALCO Blockbuster?: “Taking the Clear – the star drug of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative – was not a crime, according to expert testimony included in grand jury documents.” WHAT? This story is six days old, yet we’ve seen nothing about it anywhere. Why not? Where’s Pedro Gomez when you need him? (Yahoo Sports)
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hardballtimes.com 2/28/2009 — ESPN's legal expert Lester Munson comes down on the Bonds' appeal quite differently than I do . Regarding the prosecution's chances on appeal:
Their chances are good. Many legal experts were surprised at Illston's rulings. The prosecutors offered clever and creative arguments for the use of ...
I hope they have something better than this
hardballtimes.com 2/3/2009 — Further evidence that last week's flurry of press releases from the Bonds prosecutors was more flash than substance:
Jason Giambi told a federal grand jury in 2003 that he didn’t know whether Barry Bonds was taking banned substances and that he never gained any information about the home ...
Barry Bonds Doping Calendars - February 4, 2009
thesmokinggun.com 2/4/2009 — Slugger's alleged juicing schedule unsealed by federal court judge FEBRUARY 4--The criminal case against Barry Bonds came into sharper focus today as a federal judge unsealed documents that prosecutors want admitted into evidence against the former ...
