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If ever there was a monumental waste of money, time and effort to try and disgrace one of the most controversial athletes in the modern era, this was it; an overblown story that somehow convulsed into a federal witch hunt.
No one doubts that Barry Bonds did steroids, and in the eyes of the only jury that really matters to him — the baseball writers who will deny him admission to the Hall of Fame — that was his greatest transgression. Yet the best that federal prosecutors could come up with is that he knowingly lied about using them. And they couldn’t even convince a jury to convict him of that.
Bonds testified in front of the grand jury in 2003, and since that time, federal attorneys had been looking for ways to make him pay for his misdirected arrogance. Yet they only had the flimsiest of evidence, most of it compiled by an overzealous former Internal Revenue Service agent, Jeff Novitzky, whom many legal observers believed lacks credibility.
Read more at the San Francisco Examiner: Feds struck out years ago in case against Barry Bonds | Ken Garcia | Giants | San Francisco Examiner
No one doubts that Barry Bonds did steroids, and in the eyes of the only jury that really matters to him — the baseball writers who will deny him admission to the Hall of Fame — that was his greatest transgression. Yet the best that federal prosecutors could come up with is that he knowingly lied about using them. And they couldn’t even convince a jury to convict him of that.
Bonds testified in front of the grand jury in 2003, and since that time, federal attorneys had been looking for ways to make him pay for his misdirected arrogance. Yet they only had the flimsiest of evidence, most of it compiled by an overzealous former Internal Revenue Service agent, Jeff Novitzky, whom many legal observers believed lacks credibility.
Read more at the San Francisco Examiner: Feds struck out years ago in case against Barry Bonds | Ken Garcia | Giants | San Francisco Examiner
