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  Bonds Perjury Charges Breed, Multiply, Threaten To Overrun Small Town [Steroid Heroes]

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  71 days ago in Deadspin, Sports News without Access, Favor, or Discretion · Authority: 4,089

  One reason that no team wants to take a chance on signing Barry Bonds: The perjury counts from his BALCO grand jury testimony seem to be splitting like amoebas. On Monday he had four counts of perjury, and on Tuesday it suddenly became 14. As any
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  Feds Triple Charges for Bonds, But Legal Exposure Stays the Same

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  71 days ago in Law Blog - WSJ.com · Authority: 1,356

  The Feds may have nearly tripled the number of charges against Barry Bonds yesterday, but his legal exposure remains the same. In a re-written indictment unsealed in federal court in San Francisco, Bonds (pictured, in earlier days), whos accused of
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  Feds Triple Charges for Bonds, But Legal Exposure Stays the Same

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  70 days ago in moneynews2u.com · No authority yet

  The Feds may have nearly tripled the number of charges against Barry Bonds yesterday, but his legal exposure remains the same. In a re-written indictment unsealed in federal court in San Francisco, Bonds (pictured, in earlier days), who’s accused of lying under oath about his use of steroids, is charged with 14 counts of perjury, up from the original five counts. “It’s exactly the same,” Golden Gate U. law prof Peter Keane told the AP. “It’s two ways of saying it’s lying and there’s really no substantial difference between what he was charged with then and what he is charged with now.” Another legal eagle told the San Fran Chron that the new indictment wouldn’t necessarily increase Bonds’ likely maximum sentence of 30 months in prison if he is convicted of all the charges at his upcoming trial. Bonds’ legal team objected to the initial indictment, handed up in November, because by law, the government can accuse a defendant of only one crime per count of an indictment. Bonds lawyer Dennis Riordan contended that the indictment accused Bonds of telling as many as five lies in a single perjury count. Judge Susan Illston agreed, and ordered the government to rewrite the document. The new indictment broke each of the old perjury charges into multiple new ones. “All the government wanted to do here was cure the indictment to make sure the case could move forward,” Daniel C. Richman, a former prosecutor and Columbia law prof told the NYT. “Ironically, the government’s response was to give the jury more choices on what they can convict him on.”
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  Bonds Perjury Charges Breed, Multiply, Threaten To Overrun Small Town [Steroid Heroes]

  http://ipiko.com/2008/bonds-perjury-charges-breed-multiply-t...
  71 days ago in ipiko · Authority: 8

  One reason that no team wants to take a chance on signing Barry Bonds: The perjury counts from his BALCO grand jury testimony seem to be splitting like amoebas. On Monday he had four counts of perjury, and on Tuesday it suddenly became 14. As any biology teacher will tell you, that's reproduction by binary fission ... who knows where it will end? By June there could be millions of counts, and perhaps a new mammal species. Bonds' legal team objected to technical flaws in the original indictment. By law, the government can accuse a defendant of only one crime per count of an indictment. Bonds lawyer Dennis Riordan contended that the indictment accused Bonds of telling as many as five lies in a single perjury count. Judge Susan Illston agreed, and ordered the government to rewrite the document. The new indictment broke each of the old perjury charges into multiple new ones. This actually changes nothing, really. Bonds still faces a maximum of 30 months in jail if found guilty on all counts, same as before. It's just that now, all the counts are proportioned in smaller, bite-sized pieces. You know, it really frosts me. Why would a major league team not offer a contract to an aging outfielder with no speed and bad knees who has a reputation as a clubhouse cancer, probably took cattle steroids for several years and has criminal counts that seemingly multiply like rabbits? Must be collusion. Now Bonds Faces 14 BALCO Perjury Counts [SFGate]

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