Posted on 12/16/2011 12:02:10 PM PST by NormsRevenge
SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge said today that baseball slugger Barry Bonds must serve 30 days house arrest for obstructing justice during a federal investigation into his alleged use of steroids.
Bonds sat stoically as U.S. District Judge Susan Illston told baseball's home run king that he had avoided prison but must spend one month in his two-acre Beverly Hills estate, two years on probation, serve 250 hours of community service and pay a $4,000 fine.
A jury convicted Bonds in April of answering questions about steroids with rambling stories in an attempt to mislead a grand jury investigation into the doping of sports stars by the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative.
Today's sentencing ends an 8-year battle with Bonds, baseball's home run record holder.
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What a mess and the cost involved .. on our dime..
8 years.. wow.
2 acre spread in Beverly Hills.. ?
sounds pretty good ..
Wow, I bet his wrist really stings after that slap.
His body. His choice.
Free Barry!
I’m so glad our government finally got him and put him behind bars!
Ever since they fixed all of our economic problems, created millions of jobs, reduced the deficit & balanced the budget as well as a myriad of other problems now they can focus on the real menace facing America . . . renegade and unregulated lemonade stands run by small children.
What a waste of our taxpayer money.
Wow, I bet his wrist really stings after that slap.
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He’ll be OK.. he can rub some ‘creme’ on it.
Owie all gone..
Not a bad trade-off for 700 home runs, gazillions of dollars, some acne and shrunken gonads. I could live on pizza delivery orders for a month if I could live in my Beverly Hills mansion instead of prison. WTG, Barry!
You ring the doorbell and I’ll sneak over the back fence and hop into the hot tub .. I wonder if he has to wear a ankle bracelet? probably, do they work in saunas and steambaths. hmmm?
I guess we’ll find out.
What are the terms of his probation? He cannot use steriods while playing MLB for 2 years? Or he cannot lie to feds for 2 years? What a sham. How much did this insulting thing cost us tax-payers?
You think Mickey could compete physically with today's guys??
What does that have to do with obstruction of justice?
People were upset about the trial, but like the one against Clinton, it was about the legal system's integrity, not the actual crime.
Bonds still called home run record holder. Hank Aaron deserves that title.
Roger Maris is still the undisputed home run king.
Those drug-swollen freaks don’t count. Rog did it on his own. When will baseball admit the truth and restore Maris to the top?
How much time did Clinton serve? No integrity there.
I doubt that baseball will ever admit any truths about the steroid era. So we will not see Roger Maris’ single season home run record restored. Nor will we see Hank Aaron’s lifetime home run record restored.
Instead, I think that the steroid era and distorted home run totals will just be looked at as a time in baseball when lots of homers were hit. Just as we look back at the dead ball era as being a time when few homers were hit, and debate about the game has changed due to night baseball and modern day relief pitcher closers, baseball fans will debate about the steroid era. But baseball will not change the record books on the subject.
The system cannot allow perjury.
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