Circuit Court of Appeals. Legal experts have said the obstruction count might be vulnerable on appeal. Bonds was always the most high-profile name linked to BALCO, a now-defunct Peninsula laboratory that sprouted the largest doping scandal in sports history. Bonds repeatedly denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs, prompting years of further investigation that led to his indictment on perjury and obstruction charges nearly five years ago. But to the government, it was a case designed to show that no one can undermine the grand jury process by lying under oath, regardless of their fame.
He spent about a year in federal prison for refusing to testify before the grand jury investigating Bonds for perjury, and an additional three weeks during the trial in the spring. Show Caption. Bonds could be sentenced to a possible 10 years in a federal prison. However, the prosecutors in this case are seeking a month prison sentence. According to The San Francisco Examiner, probation officers have urged that the former Major League Baseball player receive community service and not jail time, saying.
He cited a Sept. If the federal jury could have convicted Bonds on if he lied about using performance-enhancing drugs, then he should spend time in a federal prison. However, Bonds is only convicted of one of the four charges that were brought against him. Bonds sentenced to 2 years probation Baseball legend Barry Bonds was sentenced Friday to two years of probation and 30 days of house arrest for obstruction of justice in a grand jury inquiry into illegal steroid use by professional athletes.
The sentence for Bonds, 47, came in a San Francisco federal courtroom less than two miles from the ballpark where he broke Hank Aaron's major league home run record in August The "jury got it right. Bonds managed to obstruct justice," U. District Judge Susan Illston said during the sentencing. Bonds bore a pleasant expression on his face upon hearing the sentence, which was immediately stayed pending an appeal.
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