SAN FRANCISCO AP – Baseball’s home run king is jobless and apparently unemployable. His once peerless Hall of Fame credentials are tainted. Now, on the eve of resolving criminal charges that he lied under oath about performance-enhancing drugs use, the government has thrust Barry Bonds into a legal nether world with no end in sight.
The federal government on Friday put the brakes on Bonds’ perjury trial, a brewing media spectacle that was to start Monday. Prosecutors had notified the exasperated judge that they would appeal her decision barring them from showing key evidence to the jury.
