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Barry Bonds found guilty of obstruction
ESPN/AP ^ | April 13, 2011 | ESPN/AP

Posted on 04/13/2011 2:51:17 PM PDT by Husker

SAN FRANCISCO -- The jury in the Barry Bonds convicted the seven-time MVP guilty of obstruction of justice, but the defense and prosecution agreed to a mistrial on the other three remaining counts. The judge, after speaking to the jury foreman, said she believes the mistrial is the proper decision given that the jury believes it has reached a crossroads. The jury is being brought back into the courtroom to read the verdict on the one count on which it agreed. The eight women and four men are returning the verdict after four days of deliberations. The jury has worked behind closed doors since rehearing some testimony early Monday. Bonds is charged with three counts of lying to a grand jury in 2003 and one count of obstruction. Prosecutors allege that Bonds lied when he denied knowingly taking steroids and human growth hormone. A third count of making a false statement charges that Bonds lied when he said no one other than his doctor ever injected him with anything. The fourth count is obstruction of justice, which alleges that MLB's all-time home runs leader hindered the grand jury's sports doping investigation by lying. Bonds' case is the culmination of a federal investigation that began in 2002 into the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, which distributed performance-enhancing drugs to athletes.

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TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: asterisk; barrybonds; baseball; bonds; hgh; juiced; loser; mlb; obstruction; steroids
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1 posted on 04/13/2011 2:51:23 PM PDT by Husker
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Barry’s only crime...was going in front of grand jury and making a statement. He should have just kept his mouth shut and no one could have forced anything out of him. He wouldn’t be facing any crime today.


2 posted on 04/13/2011 2:56:25 PM PDT by pepsionice
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The guy is full of crap and could not be bat boy, without the “juice”.


3 posted on 04/13/2011 2:57:16 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: Husker

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4 posted on 04/13/2011 2:58:05 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom!!! <sarc>)
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To: Husker
It's been far more important to me that Bonds name is never enshrined in The Baseball Hall Of Fame. Had he been acquitted of all charges he still would not have gotten in Those with the votes have taken a hard line against PED users. A little insurance though never hurts.
5 posted on 04/13/2011 2:58:05 PM PDT by Artemis Webb (What, if not a bagel and coffee, confirms the existence of a just and loving God?)
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Good! Now ban this jagoff from baseball for life, including Cooperstown.
6 posted on 04/13/2011 2:58:06 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (Tosca, mi fai dimenticare Iddio!!!)
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To: Husker

What an incredible waste of scarce resources. The cost of jailing him should be billed to the idiots that prosecuted him.


7 posted on 04/13/2011 2:58:06 PM PDT by microgood
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You’re as wrong as those who claimed Bill Clinton was being impeached for “having an affair”. Both were charged with lying to a grand jury. That’s a felony. You can’t do it. If you do it you get prosecuted. End of story.


8 posted on 04/13/2011 3:00:02 PM PDT by Artemis Webb (What, if not a bagel and coffee, confirms the existence of a just and loving God?)
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To: Cheetahcat

Bonds was a great player before steroids.

Personally, I enjoyed watching a roided up Bonds dominate the league for those five years.


9 posted on 04/13/2011 3:02:21 PM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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What an incredible waste of scarce resources.

I believe that Bonds should never get in the Hall of Fame and his home run record should be stricken, but I agree completely. These articles never mention that MILLIONS of dollars of federal resources were poured into this. Way to prioritize! Thank goodness our federal government is running a huge surplus and can afford this nonsense. Wait, what??
10 posted on 04/13/2011 3:02:52 PM PDT by rockvillem
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To: Artemis Webb

Agree - Keep him OUT of Cooperstown. Jail time is immaterial....


11 posted on 04/13/2011 3:03:05 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: Artemis Webb
"... Had he been acquitted of all charges he still would not have gotten in Those with the votes have taken a hard line against PED users."

Do you think Mark McGwire or Roger Clemens will ever get into the Baseball Hall Of Fame?

12 posted on 04/13/2011 3:04:40 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: Retired Greyhound

A lot of people like cheaters. Cheaters are bums compared to players who earned their records like Ted WIlliams. Keep cheering for bums and juicers.


13 posted on 04/13/2011 3:04:54 PM PDT by Frantzie (HD TV - Total Brain-washing now in High Def. 3-D Coming soon)
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To: Cheetahcat

Here’s an idea. Why don’t you try hitting a 95 mph fastball, with or without steroids. When your legs give out from underneath you because you couldn’t even see the ball, let alone get around on one to even foul it off, talk to me about Bonds being nothing without steroids. He was, for good reason having nothing to do with steroids, the best hitter the game has ever seen. He was intentionally walked with the bases loaded, and that says it all. Go Giants!


14 posted on 04/13/2011 3:06:39 PM PDT by DryFly
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To: Husker

If I have learned nothing else from television it is this, you have the right to remain silent... exercise that right.

Second thing, get a lawyer let them speak for you.


15 posted on 04/13/2011 3:07:00 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (California does not have a money problem, it has a spending problem.)
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To: pepsionice

Do you mean like Monica?


16 posted on 04/13/2011 3:07:12 PM PDT by Big Horn (Rebuild the GOP to a conservative party)
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To: Artemis Webb
You’re as wrong as those who claimed Bill Clinton was being impeached for “having an affair”. Both were charged with lying to a grand jury. That’s a felony. You can’t do it. If you do it you get prosecuted. End of story.

Right. Just keep rearranging the chairs on the Titanic. Kick the can down the road.
17 posted on 04/13/2011 3:07:34 PM PDT by microgood
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To: pepsionice
"Barry’s only crime...was going in front of grand jury and making a statement. He should have just kept his mouth shut and no one could have forced anything out of him. He wouldn’t be facing any crime today."

True, on all counts. In fact, it's not a crime to inject yourself with steroids. Steroids are NOT a Schedule III drug, unlike opiates and whatnot.

BUT, Bonds, like most narcissists, thought he could get away with anything. And, what did he want to get away with? Protecting his "legacy". However, in this country, when you swear before God to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, it actually means something. He didn't and now he's going to pay some kind of price.

I should add one caveat about "his only crime". I'm not deeply familiar with his particular case. It's possible that the Feds were also looking at him for real crimes like conspiracy to distribute or money laundering. He may have more culpability than just being a consumer of the 'roids. I don't know.

18 posted on 04/13/2011 3:07:59 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: Retired Greyhound

Bonds was a great player before steroids.

Personally, I enjoyed watching a roided up Bonds dominate the league for those five years.

OK, but that does NOT justify the abuse!


19 posted on 04/13/2011 3:09:26 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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According to the government’s case against Bonds, he started using in 1998. That’s certainly when his body underwent a big change.

By that point, he’d had six seasons of batting 30 or more homeruns, was a five-time Golden glove winner, seven-time Silver Slugger winner,seven-time all-Star, and won the MVP award three times.


20 posted on 04/13/2011 3:10:17 PM PDT by GrootheWanderer
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