After a two and a half week trial, Hall of Fame potential Barry Bonds was found guilty on one count of obstruction of justice. Bonds was accused of one count of obstruction of justice and three charges for perjury.
The court was held two miles away from AT&T Park, which is where Bonds has spent most of his professional career playing baseball. Wednesday, April 10th, around 2: 30 p.m., Bonds was convicted. It was an 11-1 vote for convicting Bonds on the injection count. He was charged for denying that he knowingly took steroids or human growth hormones and also lying for his personal trainer by claiming that he had never injected him with any of the substances.
Immediately after Bonds was convicted, his lawyers started working on a challenge to the jury’s verdict. A U.S. attorney said that she would figure out if a retrial was possible and necessary, so this might not be the end of Bonds’ time in court. A new hearing has been scheduled for May 20th of 2011 to try to meet Bonds’ lawyers’ requests for some sort of challenge to the verdict that has already been reached.
Barry Bonds holds the record for the most home runs and also holds many other records in Baseball. He was undoubtedly going to be a legend in the Hall of Fame, but, after being convicted of steroid use, he will now face an uphill battle to even contend for making it into the Hall of Fame.
The Tiger Times 
Posted on May 16, 2011 by thetigertimes
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