Barry Bonds given March 2011 trial date

[alp227]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

(08-06) 12:00 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge today set a trial date of March 21, 2011 for Barry Bonds, who is charged with perjury for telling a federal grand jury he had never knowingly used steroids on his way to setting baseball's home-run record.

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston of San Francisco accepted the schedule proposed by federal prosecutors and lawyers for the former San Francisco Giants star. She told both sides to file lists of planned witnesses by Oct. 15.

Bonds, 46, faces 11 felony charges of perjury and obstruction of justice for his 2003 testimony to the grand jury that was investigating BALCO, the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative of Burlingame. He has pleaded not guilty.

Five defendants, including BALCO founder Victor Conte and Bonds' former trainer, Greg Anderson, pleaded guilty to illegally distributing drugs through the lab.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/06/BAPM1EQ2NT.DTL

[texastoast]

1. Hank's record still stands for me

Bonds never beat it fair and square and should never be recognized as having done so.

[virgogal]

3. + 1

[tabasco]

4. Fuckinay.

[Submariner]

5. So doesn't Roger Maris's homerun record - druggie McGwire is a disgrace to baseball n/t

[Earth_First]

2. So when does A-roid get his asterisk?

600*

[smiley]

6. ridiculous...

that our government even spent the time to ask him the question in the first place.

[awoke_in_2003]

7. MLB and NFL...

both are given exemption from anti-trust laws, but they are overseen by Congress. The price that both have to pay to keep their monopolies.