Overzealous Prosecutors Indict Baseball Legend Barry Bonds On Perjury and Obstruction - Page 2
"I certainly haven't seen all of the evidence in Barry's case, however, I've seen a lot of it and I just don't think there's enough to meet the standard of beyond a reasonable doubt," he said in an e-mail to the Mercury News. "They say it's possible to 'indict a ham sandwich' and, unfortunately, I think it's going to take a very long time for us to find out if that's what they've done."Whereas Conte has acknowledged giving multiple performance-enhancing drugs to disgraced Olympic star Marion Jones and other track and field athletes, he has denied knowledge of Bonds' steroid use.
Barry Bonds lawyer, Michael Rains had strong words for both the media and the federal prosecutors in a statement he released after hearing of the indictment:
"All you need to know about the government's case is that they leaked an official indictment to every media outlet in America and withheld it from Barry, his lawyer, and everyone else who could read it and defend him," said Rains."Now that their biased allegations must finally be presented openly in a court of law, they won't be able to hide their unethical misconduct from the public any longer. You won't read about those facts in this indictment, but now the public will get the whole truth, not just selectively leaked fabrications from anonymous sources.
"What we want to know is whether the media will spend as much time repairing Barry's reputation as they have destroying it after he is proven innocent by a fair and impartial jury."
Yes, well maybe a courtesy of a reach around isn't too much to ask when you are being bent over and screwed, which is seems Bonds is. Don't get me wrong, perjuring yourself in a court of law is unacceptable and I do NOT condone the use of performance enhancing drugs when they have been banned from a sport, but this is baseball, not pedophilia, or global terrorism, and Bonds' use of steroids appears to have happened PRIOR to the sport instituting a ban on the substance (2004). Surely our federal court system and Senate have better things to do than go full throttle trying to nail a baseball player for using drugs that may have made him hit balls really far.
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