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But Pat Bonds, the former wife of the late Giants star Bobby Bonds, remained collected. Only a few times did she shake her head or shoot witnesses looks, some of which seemed to say, “Shame on you.”
On Thursday, which ended the trial’s second week, her calm finally cracked.
Pat Bonds had just watched Kathy Hoskins — the government’s 23rd witness — testify that she saw Barry Bonds’s trainer, Greg Anderson, inject Bonds in the navel with an unknown substance in 2002. (Human growth hormone, a performance-enhancing substance, is often administered that way.) [...]
To Barry and Pat Bonds, Kathy Hoskins was not just another name on the government’s witness list. She was a longtime family friend who first came to know them when she was 9 or 10. Her father, Bob, had played for the San Francisco 49ers and had been close to Bobby Bonds.
Hoskins said Barry Bonds had called her “his girl.” When a prosecutor asked Hoskins if she went to a high school Sadie Hawkins dance with Bonds, she answered enthusiastically, “Yeah!” Bonds laughed. Later, a prosecutor asked Hoskins how she became Bonds’s personal shopper. She said she told Bonds that his clothes were “wack,” and that he needed baggier clothes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/02/sports/baseball/02barry.html
On Thursday, which ended the trial’s second week, her calm finally cracked.
Pat Bonds had just watched Kathy Hoskins — the government’s 23rd witness — testify that she saw Barry Bonds’s trainer, Greg Anderson, inject Bonds in the navel with an unknown substance in 2002. (Human growth hormone, a performance-enhancing substance, is often administered that way.) [...]
To Barry and Pat Bonds, Kathy Hoskins was not just another name on the government’s witness list. She was a longtime family friend who first came to know them when she was 9 or 10. Her father, Bob, had played for the San Francisco 49ers and had been close to Bobby Bonds.
Hoskins said Barry Bonds had called her “his girl.” When a prosecutor asked Hoskins if she went to a high school Sadie Hawkins dance with Bonds, she answered enthusiastically, “Yeah!” Bonds laughed. Later, a prosecutor asked Hoskins how she became Bonds’s personal shopper. She said she told Bonds that his clothes were “wack,” and that he needed baggier clothes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/02/sports/baseball/02barry.html
