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Government Unseals Bonds Documents

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The Associated Press

Published: February 5, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors in Barry Bonds' trial intend to introduce notes seized from Greg Anderson's house and a clubhouse tape recording of the personal trainer discussing injections in an effort to get around his likely refusal to testify against the home-run king.

Among hundred of pages of documents unsealed Wednesday was a transcript of a taped conversation between Bonds' personal trainer and then personal assistant discussing injecting the slugger, plus a list of current and former major-leaguers who are scheduled to testify for the government at Bonds' upcoming trial.

Among the evidence was a positive test for amphetamines in 2006 in a urine sample Bonds gave to Major League Baseball.

Bonds' attorneys want all that evidence suppressed, and U.S. District Judge Susan Illston is to rule today. Anderson, jailed several times for refusing to answer questions before a grand jury, appears to be at the heart of the government's case.

The former San Francisco Giants star is charged with lying to a grand jury in 2003 when he said he never knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs. Federal prosecutors allege that Bonds knowingly used steroids, including a once undetectable designer drug.

His trial is scheduled to start March 2.

Bonds' lawyers moved to suppress 24 drug tests from 2000-06; more than two dozen drug calendars; BALCO log sheets; handwritten notes; opinion evidence on steroids, human growth hormone, THG, EPO and Clomid; witness descriptions of Bonds' "physical, behavioral and emotional characteristics" - including acne on his back, testicle shrinkage, head size, hat size, hand size, foot size and sexual behavior - recorded conversations that didn't include Bonds; and voice mails allegedly left by Bonds on the answering machine of former girlfriend Kimberly Bell.

Bonds' lawyers also want to prevent the jury from hearing evidence of at least four positive steroid tests they argue can't be conclusively linked to Bonds because of how they were processed.

According to records prosecutors took from BALCO, Bonds tested positive on three separate occasions in 2000 and 2001 for the steroid methenelone in urine samples; he also tested positive two of those three times for the steroid nandrolone.

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