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Bonds gets one month house arrest for obstruction (2 years probation, 250 hrs. community service)
SFGate.com ^ | 12/16/11 | Bob Egelko

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: barrybonds; obstruction; perjury; steroids

1 posted on 12/16/2011 12:02:17 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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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 ..


2 posted on 12/16/2011 12:06:19 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Wow, I bet his wrist really stings after that slap.


3 posted on 12/16/2011 12:07:23 PM PST by circlecity
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To: circlecity

His body. His choice.


4 posted on 12/16/2011 12:09:04 PM PST by Mustang Driver
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To: NormsRevenge

Free Barry!


5 posted on 12/16/2011 12:09:13 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: NormsRevenge

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.


6 posted on 12/16/2011 12:11:20 PM PST by rhubarbk
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To: NormsRevenge

What a waste of our taxpayer money.


7 posted on 12/16/2011 12:12:01 PM PST by sappy (criminaldems)
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To: NormsRevenge
Bonds, baseball's home run record holder*
8 posted on 12/16/2011 12:14:17 PM PST by FoxInSocks (B. Hussein Obama: Central Planning Czar)
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To: circlecity

Wow, I bet his wrist really stings after that slap.

He’ll be OK.. he can rub some ‘creme’ on it.

Owie all gone..


9 posted on 12/16/2011 12:15:00 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

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!


10 posted on 12/16/2011 12:16:03 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Obama: The Dr. Kevorkian of the American economy.)
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To: dfwgator

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.


11 posted on 12/16/2011 12:18:05 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

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?


12 posted on 12/16/2011 12:26:30 PM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: NormsRevenge
While I don't like the idea of drugs, we've made all these sports into "pay for fun" events with expectations of new records. So whatever works. I'm not sure why drugs are not allowed. It's not like it's heroin.

You think Mickey could compete physically with today's guys??

13 posted on 12/16/2011 12:27:48 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Mustang Driver
"His body. His choice"

What does that have to do with obstruction of justice?

14 posted on 12/16/2011 12:28:41 PM PST by circlecity
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To: NormsRevenge
The importance of this isn't the steroids is that he was convicted of 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.

15 posted on 12/16/2011 12:34:23 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Burke)
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To: NormsRevenge
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 still called home run record holder. Hank Aaron deserves that title.

16 posted on 12/16/2011 12:41:57 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Either Obama can beat any GOP candidate or no GOP candidate.)
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To: NormsRevenge

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?


17 posted on 12/16/2011 12:43:39 PM PST by oldbill
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To: fortheDeclaration
People were upset about the trial, but like the one against Clinton, it was about the legal system's integrity, not the actual crime.

How much time did Clinton serve? No integrity there.

18 posted on 12/16/2011 12:56:38 PM PST by roadcat
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To: oldbill

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.


19 posted on 12/16/2011 1:26:20 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: roadcat
The time is irrelevant, the fact is that he pleaded guilty.

The system cannot allow perjury.

20 posted on 12/16/2011 8:56:23 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Burke)
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