Barry Bonds guilty of obstruction; jury hung on other counts
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Following a 12-day trial and almost four full days of
deliberation, a jury could not reach a unanimous vote on three of
four counts, a messy end to a case that put the slugger in the
spotlight for more than three years.
Bonds sat stone-faced through the verdict, displaying no
emotion.
The case also represented the culmination of the federal
investigation into the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative steroids
ring. Federal prosecutors and the Justice Department will have to
decide whether to retry Bonds on the unresolved counts.
