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 Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com I recently read the “Time” magazine profile of FBI Director Robert Mueller noting that his 10-year statutory term was coming to an end. It was mentioned that the Director is a big baseball fan especially of the Boston Red Sox. I have also read speculation about what may be in Dir….
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…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Barry Bonds slugfest began Tuesday with some drama as the baseball slugger’s trial got underway in federal court in San Francisco. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ordered Bond’s boyhood friend and longtime weight trainer Greg Anderson back to prison Tuesday for the duration of the trial after he refused to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s game time for the baseball legend Barry Bonds. Jury selection begins Monday in federal court in San Francisco for the home run slugger who is charged with perjury and obstruction of justice for allegedly lying when he said he didn’t take steroids. Bonds, 46, is not likely to face prison…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — Thousands of federal law enforcement agents work their tails off to put crooks behind bars. But on occasion, some of the very same folks who carry a gun and a badge and slap the cuffs on the bad guys end up stepping over the line….
