MMC
12-06-2011, 11:15 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/barry-bonds-seeks-probation-criminal-conviction-020650538.html
Reuters – 1 hr 51 mins ago.....
Reuters) - Baseball home run king Barry Bonds should receive no jail time for his conviction on a single criminal count related to an investigation of steroids in sports, his attorneys argued in a court filing on Tuesday.
A Northern California jury convicted Bonds in April on one count of obstruction of justice, but deadlocked on three other counts of lying to a grand jury.
Bonds is scheduled to be sentenced in a San Francisco federal court on December 16. In a sentencing memorandum submitted on Tuesday, his attorneys said Bonds deserved probation.
Among the reasons for no prison, Bonds' lawyers cited a long history of good works, done away from the public eye.
"He has deliberately not chosen to use the many years he has devoted to causes that he values to enhance his public stature as an athlete and celebrity," attorney Allen Ruby wrote.
U.S. prosecutors have not yet submitted their sentencing recommendation for Bonds.
The Bonds prosecution stemmed from his testimony to a 2003 grand jury investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, or BALCO.....snip~
Lies to a grand Jury and wants probation. I didnt think they would give him time anyways. Think they will give him prison time? Or just the slap on the wrist?
Reuters – 1 hr 51 mins ago.....
Reuters) - Baseball home run king Barry Bonds should receive no jail time for his conviction on a single criminal count related to an investigation of steroids in sports, his attorneys argued in a court filing on Tuesday.
A Northern California jury convicted Bonds in April on one count of obstruction of justice, but deadlocked on three other counts of lying to a grand jury.
Bonds is scheduled to be sentenced in a San Francisco federal court on December 16. In a sentencing memorandum submitted on Tuesday, his attorneys said Bonds deserved probation.
Among the reasons for no prison, Bonds' lawyers cited a long history of good works, done away from the public eye.
"He has deliberately not chosen to use the many years he has devoted to causes that he values to enhance his public stature as an athlete and celebrity," attorney Allen Ruby wrote.
U.S. prosecutors have not yet submitted their sentencing recommendation for Bonds.
The Bonds prosecution stemmed from his testimony to a 2003 grand jury investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, or BALCO.....snip~
Lies to a grand Jury and wants probation. I didnt think they would give him time anyways. Think they will give him prison time? Or just the slap on the wrist?