Bonds Judge Wants to Question Anderson

[cboy4]

Oh give it up Your Honor.

Hes not going to testify and why is that?

Because Anderson can't risk counting on any particular jury.

Besides, they need to save as much court time as possible so the government can interrogate its star witness .. Barry's personal shopper. :eyes:

OH MY SIDES. :rofl:

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By CAROL POGASH and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
Published: February 17, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO — The judge presiding over Barry Bonds’s perjury case said on Tuesday that she would like Greg Anderson, Bonds’s former trainer, to appear in court before the trial begins on March 2 to determine if he will testify.

Anderson spent a year in prison refusing to testify before a grand jury about whether he gave Bonds banned substances. Despite the insistence of Anderson’s lawyers that he will not testify at Bonds’s trial, prosecutors want to call him as a witness anyway.

The prosecutors would presumably want Anderson to refuse to testify in the presence of the jury and hope that it sends a message and raises questions about why he will not talk about Bonds. Anderson’s refusal to testify could then set off a chain of events in which he conceivably would be taken away by authorities for contempt while the jury is watching.

The judge in the case, United States District Judge Susan Illston, appeared to side with Bonds’s lawyers on the Anderson issue and indicated she wanted him questioned before the trial begins, so it can be determined at that point if he will testify.

During Tuesday’s hearing, Illston appeared frustrated with the government’s continued efforts to get Anderson to testify. She uncharacteristically raised her voice when she asked the assistant United States attorney Matt Parrella if he could find a case “where someone was put in prison for a year” then released, refused to testify at trial “and is jailed again.”

“Have you ever found that?” she asked.

When Parrella said he knew of no such example, the judge responded: “Neither have I.”

Anderson has resisted pressure from the government to cooperate even as prosecutors threatened to charge his wife with criminal conspiracy and his mother-in-law in connection with her finances.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/sports/baseball/18bonds.html?ref=sports

[BOSSHOG]

1. Pitiful soap opera marring America's Game

If bonds had any character or integrity he'd disappear, but all he has is a body wasted by steroids and no desire to right what he has wronged. And he keeps hanging on because pitiful citizens keep encouraging him to do so simply because of pride. It reminds me of Patriot fans of a few years back. Incredibly Sad. Overwhelmingly pathetic.

[cboy4]

2. Barry would ride into the sunset on his Home Run King

horse, but the government has chosen to keep Bonds in the spotlight because there's a pressing need to question his personal shopper. :rofl:

This is why Obama needs me as attorney general. I would demand the weak charges dropped and immediately order the barely qualified team of deputy AG's to get their asses working on the stack of cases that really affect and harm society.

Incredibly Sad. Overwhelmingly pathetic.

Yes, we finally agree about something.