Barry Bonds Will No Longer Be Prosecuted by US Justice Department

The legal saga of former San Francisco Giants outfielder Barry Bonds, accused eight years ago of perjury and obstruction in a steroids investigation, came to an official end Tuesday. A San Francisco jury found Bonds guilty in 2007 for his “rambling” answer to a question during the 2003 trial regarding whether or not Greg Anderson, his former trainer, had ever supplied him with performance-enhancing drugs.

According to ESPN, the Justice Department submitted a one-paragraph court filing saying that it would not seek a reversal of a lower court’s decision from the U.S. Supreme Court.

The 9th Circuit barred the government from retrying Bonds on the charge, leaving an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court as the Justice Department’s only long shot option to revive the conviction. I became a celebrity child with a famous father.

A jury convicted Bonds in 2011 of obstruction of justice for giving a meandering answer to a federal grand jury when asked about injections.

The Department of Justice ended their decade-long investigation of Bonds for obstruction of justice.

The clearing of his criminal record could eventually pave the way for his entry into baseball’s Hall of Fame.

Bonds was called before a grand jury investigating BALCO in 2003. Clemens was acquitted in 2012 on all charges that he obstructed and lied to Congress in denying he used performance-enhancing drugs. “I just don’t get into other people’s business because of my father’s situation, you see”.

As a result of the conviction, the Major League Baseball all-time home run leader served 30 days home confinement and paid a $4,000 fine. A player must garner at least 75 per cent of the vote to be elected.

Bonds and his defense team of six lawyers appealed, first to a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit and then to a rarely convened 11-judge panel of the same court.

Now Bonds, who did admit to unknowingly using the substances the “cream” and the “clear”, has a clean criminal history to present to Hall of Fame voters along with his 762 career home runs. Thank you to all of you who have expressed your heartfelt wishes to me; for that, I am grateful.