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US ends prosecution of Barry Bonds without conviction
Posted On Jul 22 2015
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Bonds played with the Giants from 1993 to 2007 and during that time set the Major League Baseball career home run record of 762, as well as the single-season record of 73 in 2001.
A jury convicted him of obstructing justice because of the answer he gave when he was asked if his personal trainer Greg Anderson ever injected him with steroids.
In his 2003 testimony, Bonds admitted to the grand jury he had taken substances often known as “the clear” and “the cream” from Anderson however stated he thought they have been flaxseed oil and arthritis ointment. Bonds’s conviction was overturned in April and the U.S. Department of Justice filed notice in court Tuesday that it will not challenge the reversal.
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. Instead, the DOJ said the reversal of Bonds’ conviction would stand. Bonds attorney Dennis Riordan decline comment early Tuesday, saying he needed to speak with his client before discussing the case publicly.
Bonds’ answer to that led to all of this legal action? In addition, the slugger was convicted on one obstruction charge in 2011, and the jury deadlocked on three perjury charges. He served the home confinement before the conviction was overturned. I became a celebrity child with a famous father.
The U.S. Department of Justice ended its prosecution of Barry Bonds.
The BALCO investigation also helped lead to the report by former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, which called out many of baseball’s top players, including Roger Clemens, for alleged steroids use.
In his third year on the Hall of Fame ballot this year, Bonds received 202 votes for 36.8 percent from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. The investigation netted a number of convictions and prison terms, including BALCO mastermind Victor Conte, but it appears the superstar considered the biggish fish got away in the end.
