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Bonds' lawyers want prosecution evidence thrown out
[SIZE=-1]San Francisco Chronicle, USA [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]In documents filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, Bonds' defense team asked a judge to sharply restrict the evidence the government may use in prosecuting Bonds for allegedly lying to a grand jury in 2003 about his use of banned drugs. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]They asked Judge Susan Illston to bar the use of the drug tests, which prosecutors say prove that Bonds used steroids and then lied when he told the grand jury he had never used banned substances. [/SIZE][...]
[SIZE=-1]"Unless the government can supply persuasive, admissible evidence demonstrating that a specific blood or urine sample belonged to Mr. Bonds, the court must exclude (the) evidence," wrote defense lawyers Dennis Riordan and Donald Horgan. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Using a similar argument, the defense lawyers asked the judge to bar the jury from reviewing a set of doping calendars seized in raids on BALCO and on the home of Bonds' weight trainer, Greg Anderson. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Prosecutors say the calendars describe Bonds' use of steroids and human growth hormone, but again the defense says there is no proof that the documents are about Bonds.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Finally, the lawyers asked the judge to exclude from evidence a 2003 tape recording of Anderson discussing Bonds' use of banned drugs. Because Bonds wasn't present for the recording, it is hearsay and inadmissible as evidence, they contend.[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=-1]San Francisco Chronicle, USA [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]In documents filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, Bonds' defense team asked a judge to sharply restrict the evidence the government may use in prosecuting Bonds for allegedly lying to a grand jury in 2003 about his use of banned drugs. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]They asked Judge Susan Illston to bar the use of the drug tests, which prosecutors say prove that Bonds used steroids and then lied when he told the grand jury he had never used banned substances. [/SIZE][...]
[SIZE=-1]"Unless the government can supply persuasive, admissible evidence demonstrating that a specific blood or urine sample belonged to Mr. Bonds, the court must exclude (the) evidence," wrote defense lawyers Dennis Riordan and Donald Horgan. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Using a similar argument, the defense lawyers asked the judge to bar the jury from reviewing a set of doping calendars seized in raids on BALCO and on the home of Bonds' weight trainer, Greg Anderson. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Prosecutors say the calendars describe Bonds' use of steroids and human growth hormone, but again the defense says there is no proof that the documents are about Bonds.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Finally, the lawyers asked the judge to exclude from evidence a 2003 tape recording of Anderson discussing Bonds' use of banned drugs. Because Bonds wasn't present for the recording, it is hearsay and inadmissible as evidence, they contend.[/SIZE]
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