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Entertainment & Sports Update: Indictment Charges Against All Time Home Run King Barry Bonds Reduced from Eleven to Five

By Bashian & Papantoniou
February 14, 2011

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Last week, federal prosecutors reduced the number of felony charges pending against  Barry Bonds  from eleven to five.  The charges stem from  allegations  that  Bonds  lied to a grand jury in 2007 about his purported past steroid use.    Bonds  has pleaded not guilty to the charges and has maintained his innocence throughout his entire baseball career and the pending criminal case.   Bonds  is a seven time Most Valuable Player and holds the all-time  Major League Baseball   home run record  with 762 home runs.   The reduction of charges stem from  Greg Anderson’s  (Bonds’ former trainer) refusal to take the witness stand against  Bonds .  As a result, U.S. District  Judge Susan Illston  ruled the “so-called doping calendars” apparently discovered in Anderson’s home to be inadmissible at trial because of his refusal to authenticate the calendars at trial.    Bonds  is facing a potential ten-year sentence in prison for each of the nine remaining counts.  Federal sentencing guideline for a first offense on these charges generally call for a total sentence of 15 to 21 months.  Read More
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