Baseball slugger Barry Bonds was recently found guilty of obstruction of justice, based on his immunized testimony before a federal grand jury investigating the use of illegal steroids in professional sports.
Bonds also was charged with three counts of perjury, for specific alleged lies during his testimony, but the jury failed to reach a unanimous decision on those counts. The obstruction verdict was based on a single exchange in the grand jury. When asked whether his trainer had ever given him anything that required injection with a syringe, Bonds did not answer directly but made a rambling, nonresponsive statement about being the child of a celebrity who did not get involved in anyone else’s business.
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