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positive drug tests in bonds case
Published Feb. 4, 2009Views: 242
Evidence from the federal government unsealed Wednesday in the Barry Bonds case showed that Bonds tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs three times in November 2000 and February 2001.
The documents also include a recorded conversation between Bonds’s former trainer, Greg Anderson, and his former business manager, Stevie Hoskins. In that conversation, the government said that Anderson told Hoskins that he had injected Bonds with performance-enhancing drugs. Anderson also referred to inside information he said he had about baseball’s drug-testing program, the government said.
The documents address a 2003 drug test that was conducted by Major League Baseball that came up negative for performance-enhancing drugs. But tests later performed on that sample by the U.C.L.A. Olympic Testing laboratory showed testosterone; clomid, an anti-estrogen drug used to stimulate natural testosterone levels; and THG, a designer steroid that was provided to athletes by the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, or Balco.
The evidence is contained in hundreds of pages of documents unsealed by the judge overseeing Bonds’s perjury trial. Included in the documents is evidence that Bonds’s lawyers asked the judge to exclude from his trial, which is scheduled to begin on March 2.
The evidence includes doping calendars, the results from blood and urine tests and handwritten notes.
According to the documents, Hoskins, who is expected to be a witness at the trial, recorded a conversation he had with Anderson in the clubhouse of Bonds’s team, the San Francisco Giants, in March of 2003.
The documents cite part of the conversation:
Anderson: “ ... everything that I’ve been doing at this point, it’s all undetectable.”
Hoskins: “Right.”
Anderson: “See the stuff that I have ... we created it. And you can’t, you can’t buy it anywhere. You can’t get it anywhere else. But, you can it the day of and pee ...”
Hoskins: “Uh-huh.”
Anderson: “And it come up with nothing.”
Hoskins: “Isn’t that the same (expletive) that Marion Jones and them were using?”Anderson: “Yeah, same stuff, the stuff that worked at the Olympics.”
Hoskins: “Right, right.”
Anderson: “And they test them every (expletive) week.”
Hoskins: “Every week. Right, right.”
Anderson: “So that’s why I know it works. So that’s why I’m not even trippin’. So that’s cool.”
Bonds faces charges that he lied in 2003 when he told a federal grand jury investigating Balco that he never knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs.
Three weeks ago, Bonds’s lawyers filed a motion to exclude several pieces of the evidence. The lawyers have argued that there is no chain of custody linking Bonds to the blood and urine test results, and that the government is relying too heavily on documents that cannot be authenticated without testimony at trial. Specifically, the defense argued that the government needs the testimony of Anderson, Bonds’s former trainer, who has spent over a year in prison refusing to testify about substances he allegedly gave Bonds.
The judge is scheduled to hear arguments on Thursday about whether to admit the evidence at trial.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/sports/baseball/05bonds.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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Then you have the guys who tried to play clean and never got a chance because of it. Bad time to be in baseball.
February 4, 2009 9:20 p.m.
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February 4, 2009 9:23 p.m.
ROFLMAO
As far as the enhancement drugs... I believe they are just slowly killing themselves. Now, If they find Bonds quilty of perjury.... Prison time my friend!
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Ooops I did it
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