Day: September 23, 2015

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals put an end this year to the government’s legal action against former baseball player Barry Bonds. The court issued an order overturning a jury verdict which convicted him of obstruction of justice. Although the Department of Justice could have appealed the case to the United States Supreme Court, it notified the court just before the filing deadline that an appeal would not be filed. Bonds had been brought before a federal grand jury in the government’s probe of the use of performance enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball. His testimony resulted in the U. S. Attorney seeking perjury charges against him. In the end, the