(Barry) Bonds prosecutors file appeal arguments
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Barry Bonds was properly convicted of obstructing justice by trying to mislead a grand jury about his knowledge of his trainer's distribution of steroids, prosecutors told a federal appeals court Thursday.
The former San Francisco Giants star was "intentionally false, misleading and evasive" in his 2003 testimony about his relationship with trainer Greg Anderson that led to his felony conviction, prosecutors said in arguments filed with the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
Bonds, baseball's all-time home run leader, was indicted for his testimony to a federal grand jury investigating steroid distribution to athletes by the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative in Burlingame.
A jury deadlocked in April 2011 on charges that he had lied by denying that he had knowingly taken performance-enhancing drugs, and prosecutors later dropped those charges. But jurors convicted him of obstructing justice when asked whether Anderson had ever given him injectable drugs.
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