By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com After a long, drawn out legal battle with former baseball slugger Barry Bonds, the Justice Department is waving the white flag. The Los Angeles Times reports that the Justice Department announced Tuesday that it was not going to challenge the reversal of Bonds’ 2011 felony conviction that he obstructed justice when…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department’s attempt to maintain a criminal conviction against retired baseball slugger Barry Bonds is a swing and miss, several U.S. appeals court judges ruled. Reuters reports that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals had serious doubts that Bonds’ testimony about steroids amounted to a crime. “I find your reading…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com One time baseball slugger Barry Bonds was sentenced Friday in San Francisco federal court to 30 days of house arrest, two years probation and a $4,000 fine for his obstruction of justice conviction in 2003 tied to his testimony to a grand jury probing illegal steroid use, CNN reported. The network…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Baseball slugger Barry Bonds got a little good news even though he faces sentencing Dec. 16 for an obstruction of justice conviction in San Francisco. Federal prosecutors on Wednesday dropped the remaining three charges of making false statement, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. The jury had…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal jury in San Francisco convicted baseball legend Barry Bonds on Wednesday afternoon of one count of obstruction of justice, MSNBC reported. The jury deadlocked on the other three counts of perjury involving allegations that he lied to a grand jury in 2003 about his use of steroids and human…
Editors Note: The jury in the Bond’s case begins its fourth day of deliberations on Wednesday. He faces charges of making false statements to a grand jury about steroid use and obstruction of justice. By WILLIAM C. RHODEN The New York Times The trial of Barry Bonds has always been more than a simple case…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As days go, Monday was not Barry Bonds’ best one. His ex-girlfriend Kimberly Bell testified in U.S. District Court in San Francisco that the former baseball slugger for the San Francisco Giants told her he used steroids but “didn’t shoot it up everyday like bodybuilders did,” according to the San Francisco…
By Sally Jenkins Washington Post Columnist Barry Bonds is a lot of things, leading off with obnoxious, but he doesn’t meet my definition of a criminal. There is a growing school of legal thought that says we have a dangerous tendency to “overcriminalize,” using criminal law to try to solve every single social problem in…
