shysterball.blogspot.com - 12/5/2008
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Though the replay official may change one of those hits to a foul ball: Barry Bonds, Major League Baseball’s homerun record holder, won dismissal of five of 14 charges accusing him of lying about taking steroids. U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco ruled today that the ...
bizofbaseball.com - 11/29/2008
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bizofbaseball.com —
With the unsealing of BALCO documents, Bonds' lawyers
can contend that he is being singled out for
prosecution. With the wave of a pen on Weds., U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston approved a request of federal prosecutors and with that, ...
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Unsealing of BALCO Documents Signals Weakness in Case ...
beyondtheboxscore.com - 12/2/2008
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beyondtheboxscore.com —
Disclaimer: I had no intention of taking this
angle, but after about 400 words noticed it was
a worthwhile one. I was toying around in SQL, looking at single season high in certain statistics and threw in the formula for OPS. I set the at-bats ...
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Ted Williams vs. Barry Bonds
hardballtimes.com - 12/5/2008
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hardballtimes.com —
The prosecutors in the Barry Bonds case have
now officially dropped a handful of charges : Federal
prosecutors dropped four counts of lying to a grand jury against Barry Bonds, leaving him to face trial next year on 10 counts of making false statements plus an additional obstruction of ...
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The Bonds Charges
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... As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, there is nothing really game-changing about this from a legal perspective. That said, there are still several questions and answers that form the basis of the perjury charges that I believe to be vague and ambiguous. I've seen juries acquit defendants on stronger records and convict them on weaker ones, so I can't really say with any certainty how this will all play out. If you put a gun to my head I'd say that Barry has a decent shot of getting off, but you know what they say about opinions. ...
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blacksportsonline.com 2/5/2009 — In a continuing effort to crack down on misdeeds and mishaps of the financial sector and automotive industry, the government is sparing no expense in the time and money it is dedicating to sending Barry Bonds up the creek without a paddle. After all, it's the menaces of baseball such as ...
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A win for the defense
hardballtimes.com 2/20/2009 — The government's case against Bonds gets weaker by the day :
A federal judge has barred prosecutors from using three positive steroid tests and other key evidence in Barry Bonds' trial next month because of his personal trainer's refusal to testify. The ruling issued late Thursday was ...
Barry Bonds still has baseball in sights: 'I'm not retiring'
sports.espn.go.com 12/16/2008 — is not above being caught on camera by the Los Angeles paparazzi. Nor, it seems, is he above a return to baseball. Bonds appeared to relish the chance this weekend to clear up thoughts he's given up on on a comeback. Are you still considering it, ...
20 Agents?
hardballtimes.com 1/29/2009 — If the case against Barry Bonds was as good as everyone says it is, why are the feds scorching the Earth in order to try and get the testimony of someone they've know ain't talking for years?
FBI and IRS agents raided the home of Greg Anderson’s mother-in-law Wednesday in what Anderson’s ...
Witness to Say She Saw Bonds Being Injected
nytimes.com 2/14/2009 — Federal prosecutors plan to call Barry Bonds’s former personal shopper at his perjury trial to testify that she saw Bonds being injected by his trainer. >
Bonds' counts drop four to 11 —
NYDailyNews.com - Baseball 12/5/2008
Barry Bonds is still scheduled to go to trial March 2. But he is facing four fewer counts of perjury after federal prosecutors filed a superseding indictment Thursday in U.S. District Court in northern California.
