Barry Bonds charged with 14 counts of perjury

[NightWatcher]

Happening now, Mr Juice has been charged....

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/baseball/mlb/05/13/bonds.charges.ap/?eref=sircrc

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Major League Baseball home run record holder Barry Bonds was charged with 14 counts of lying to a grand jury and one count of obstruction of justice in a new indictment that was a result of the BALCO doping investigation.

Bonds originally was charged with four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice for lying about whether he knowingly used illegal substances on Nov. 15. However, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ordered government prosecutors on Feb. 29 to rework the indictment so that each charge alleged only one lie rather than combining several alleged falsehoods into single counts.

The new indictment doesn't add any new alleged falsehoods.

The case against Bonds is still built on whether he lied when he told the grand jury that his personal trainer Greg Anderson never supplied him with steroids and human growth hormone.

[flvegan]

1. Actually, I think his case is based

on if he *knew* that what Anderson was giving him was a below board substance. Anderson, I believe, has stated that he did indeed supply Bonds with gear, and Bonds has stated that if that was the case, he was unaware of it.

NOT justifying juice, just saying that I think the article is slightly inaccurate.