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Once a slam dunk, steroid probes face unsettled future
[SIZE=-1]New York Daily News, NY - 7 hours ago[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The legal document is only a couple of pages long, but it may tell a much larger story about the government's war on steroids. The federal prosecutors taking Barry Bonds to court next March filed a notice on the docket of U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston on Tuesday, signaling they will appeal the lenient sentence she handed to cyclist Tammy Thomas last month.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Thomas recently began serving six months of home confinement for lying under oath to the grand jury that investigated BALCO in 2003. Bonds faces similar charges.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The notice of cross appeal signals that the BALCO prosecutors are frustrated by what they view as Illston's lenient sentence: the judge didn't give Thomas anything close to the 2 years in prison they sought.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Are they worried that after five years of legal warfare, Bonds might not land in a jail cell?[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]According to Ethan Balogh, Thomas' attorney, the notice of cross appeal is "borderline frivolous," adding that he hopes the prosecutors aren't letting the pressure of the upcoming Bonds trial affect other cases.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"If it is aimed at Bonds, that would say much - and nothing good - about these prosecutors' use of improper factors in dispatching their duties," Balogh told the Daily News last week.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Balogh also says that the imminent change of leadership at the Justice Department, as President Bush's appointees hand off power to those of Barack Obama, make it hard to predict the status of the appeal, which must be approved by the attorney general or the solicitor general before the government can proceed.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"Under normal circumstances, I'd be shocked if the solicitor general actually approves this decision by the line prosecutors," said Balogh. "We're at the end of one administration and the beginning of another, and I'm not sure who's tending the shop in D.C." [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]...[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=-1]New York Daily News, NY - 7 hours ago[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The legal document is only a couple of pages long, but it may tell a much larger story about the government's war on steroids. The federal prosecutors taking Barry Bonds to court next March filed a notice on the docket of U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston on Tuesday, signaling they will appeal the lenient sentence she handed to cyclist Tammy Thomas last month.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Thomas recently began serving six months of home confinement for lying under oath to the grand jury that investigated BALCO in 2003. Bonds faces similar charges.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The notice of cross appeal signals that the BALCO prosecutors are frustrated by what they view as Illston's lenient sentence: the judge didn't give Thomas anything close to the 2 years in prison they sought.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Are they worried that after five years of legal warfare, Bonds might not land in a jail cell?[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]According to Ethan Balogh, Thomas' attorney, the notice of cross appeal is "borderline frivolous," adding that he hopes the prosecutors aren't letting the pressure of the upcoming Bonds trial affect other cases.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"If it is aimed at Bonds, that would say much - and nothing good - about these prosecutors' use of improper factors in dispatching their duties," Balogh told the Daily News last week.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Balogh also says that the imminent change of leadership at the Justice Department, as President Bush's appointees hand off power to those of Barack Obama, make it hard to predict the status of the appeal, which must be approved by the attorney general or the solicitor general before the government can proceed.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"Under normal circumstances, I'd be shocked if the solicitor general actually approves this decision by the line prosecutors," said Balogh. "We're at the end of one administration and the beginning of another, and I'm not sure who's tending the shop in D.C." [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]...[/SIZE]
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