Re: feds victimize family to get trainer to talk
Well, bad news for the government:
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Barry Bonds’s steroids test, doping calendars prepared by his trainer and other key government evidence might be excluded from the baseball players’ perjury trial, a federal judge said.
U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston said today she was leaning toward ruling that the evidence is inadmissible unless federal prosecutors have testimony from Greg Anderson, Bonds’s former trainer, or other witnesses who can link the calendars and blood tests to Bonds.
“If nobody testifies about them, the ones that are allegedly related to the defendant, I don’t find that the hearsay exception urged will get them into evidence,” Illston said at a hearing in San Francisco.
Re: feds victimize family to get trainer to talk
Good, using flawed evidence should never be allowed. The French used the same method against Lance Armstrong.
Re: feds victimize family to get trainer to talk
From Baseball Think Factory:
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Originally Posted by David Nieporent
Interesting. I think that this would leave at most just the single THG test from 2003, and that by itself won't get them perjury. So we're still, after a couple of years of this, probably back where we started: Anderson is the key. If so, expect, over the next four weeks, to see the IRS going after anybody who has ever talked to Greg Anderson. Friends, relatives, neighbors, his pet dog. They're not going to quietly let him not testify.
