Bonds’s Lawyers Rest Their Case Without Calling Witnesses
By - Apr 7, 2011 12:05 AM GMT+0700
Former Major League Baseball player Barry Bonds arrives for the first day of his perjury trial on March 21, 2011 in San Francisco. Photographer: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
The jury will get the case tomorrow after prosecutors and Bonds’s lawyers make final arguments, said U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco. Prosecutors earlier dropped one of five counts, an accusation that the ballplayer lied by saying he never took “anything” given to him by his former trainer before the 2003 baseball season.
Allen Ruby, one of Bonds’s attorneys, said yesterday that the defense might call Bonds, a former trainer and three other witnesses. He also said no witnesses might be called. He didn’t tell Illston today why the defense chose not to call anyone.
Bonds, 46, who holds Major League Baseball’s career and single-season home run records, is accused of lying when he told a federal grand jury in 2003 that he never knowingly took steroids provided by his former fitness and weight trainer, Greg Anderson, and that no one other than his doctor gave him injections.
His lawyers say he truthfully testified that he received performance-enhancing substances from Anderson, not knowing what they were because they were new at the time.
The case is U.S. v. Bonds, 07-00732, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (San Francisco).
To contact the reporter on this story: Karen Gullo in San Francisco at kgullo@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Michael Hytha at mhytha@bloomberg.net.
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