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A notable perjury trial with sentencing advice for Bonds, Clemens and others

By Douglas A. Berman

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The San Francisco Chronicle has this interesting article about the start of a nother notable steroid-perjury trial in federal court. As detailed in this excerpt, the trial has a lot of impact on various sentencing issues:Caught up in the BALCO steroids scandal, an elite athlete adamantly denies using banned drugs, then mounts an aggressive defense to a perjury indictment. It sounds like the case of former Giants slugger Barry Bonds, accused of lying under oath to the federal grand jury that investigated Burlingame's Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative steroid ring in 2003. Instead, starting today in federal court in San Francisco, a lesser-known American sports champion ? Tammy Thomas, a onetime star of bicycle track racing ? goes on trial, charged with perjury and obstruction of justice...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 24, 2008 (boomark / email).

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