Home run records holder and alleged steroid user Barry Bonds, earned a major win Friday when a federal appeals court ruled prosecutors could not use drug tests and doping calendars in the former All-Star's ongoing perjury case.
Bonds' case went to the ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after a lower court ruled the government could not directly tie blood and urine samples to the retired slugger.
In order to legitimize the drug tests from 2000 and 2001, the government has to get Greg Anderson, Bonds' former trainer, to testify. Anderson will likely keep quiet; he has already been to jail multiple times for steroid distribution.
The court decision is frustrating for both the U.S. Government and baseball fans.
Unlike Mark McGwire, whose admittance to using perf ...
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