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The federal government is ending prosecution of Barry Bonds
Posted On Jul 22 2015
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After greater than a decade of being investigated by the federal authorities, baseball’s controversial house run king – Barry Bonds – not has a legal document after the U.S. Justice Department filed a a courtroom doc Tuesday saying it is going to not search costs towards him. He avoided a perjury conviction, but was found guilty of obstruction for a roundabout answer when asked about his former personal trainer, Greg Anderson, and if he ever injected Bonds with steroids. In a one-paragraph motion on Wednesday, the Department of Justice said it would not ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review that decision. The slugger was convicted on one obstruction charge in 2011, and the jury deadlocked on three perjury counts. This office procured the indictment of Bonds in 2007 and charged him with lying to a federal grand jury in regards to using performance-enhancing drug use.
The Department of Justice ended their decade-long investigation of Bonds for obstruction of justice.
Bonds was initially convicted for obstruction of justice based on his testimony before a federal grand jury in 2003. But he was caught in the middle of baseball’s BALCO performance-enhancing drug scandal in the early 2000s. “I just don’t get into other people’s business because of my father’s situation, you see”.
In his third year on the Hall ballot in 2015, Bonds received 202 votes for 36.8 per cent from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.
After the 2011 conviction, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston sentenced Bonds to 30 days of home confinement, two years of probation, 250 hours of community service in youth-related activities and a $4,000 fine.
The appeals court 10-1 ruling erased what was left of the Bonds prosecution, which began in 2003 when his name surfaced in records linked to a then-obscure Peninsula laboratory known as BALCO that became the epicenter of doping in sports, according to Mercury News.
When he retired, Bonds had amassed 762 career home runs, 2,558 walks and 688 intentional walks – all Major League Baseball records – in 22 seasons with the Pirates and Giants. Thank you to all of you who have expressed your heartfelt wishes to me; for that, I am grateful.
