Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO
May 13, 2008 09:08 pm
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Major League Baseball home run record holder Barry Bonds was charged with 14 counts of lying to a grand jury and one count of obstruction of justice in a new indictment that was a result of the BALCO doping investigation.
Bonds originally was charged with four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice for lying about whether he knowingly used illegal substances on Nov. 15. However, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ordered government prosecutors on Feb. 29 to rework the indictment so that each charge alleged only one lie rather than combining several alleged falsehoods into single counts.
The new indictment doesn't add any new alleged falsehoods.
The case against Bonds is still built on whether he lied when he told the grand jury that his personal trainer Greg Anderson never supplied him with steroids and human growth hormone.
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In this Dec. 21, 2007 file photo, Barry Bonds, formerly of the San Francisco Giants, arrives at the Philip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco. Federal prosecutors have filed a new indictment against Bonds, which was unsealed on Tuesday, May 13, 2008, charging the home run king with 14 counts of lying to a grand jury and one count of obstruction when he denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs. AP