Judge Susan Illston in Barry Bonds case may disallow some evidence

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Judge in Bonds case may disallow some evidence
[SIZE=-1]Los Angeles Times[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The U.S. District Court judge who will preside over Barry Bonds' perjury trial next month said Thursday her "preliminary thoughts" were to exclude evidence that Bonds tested positive for steroids three times in the months before his record-breaking 73-homer season of 2001.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]Judge Susan Illston said in a San Francisco pretrial hearing attended by Bonds that she also will probably bar prosecutors from introducing evidence of doping calendars and ledgers from the former steroid-distributing Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) that provided substances to Bonds' personal trainer, Greg Anderson. [...][/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]Illston, meanwhile, did express an inclination to allow prosecutors to introduce a transcript of Anderson's alleged tape-recorded conversation in March 2003 with the player's former longtime friend and assistant, Steve Hoskins. On tape, Anderson discusses Bonds' injected use of undetectable "stuff" that will allow him to avoid testing positive in an upcoming Major League Baseball drug test. ...[/SIZE]


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