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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
Baseball star Barry Bonds in trouble again
US baseball legend Barry Bonds has been indicted again for perjury in relation to an investigation into steroid abuse.
Bonds has already been charged with 14 counts of perjury, and also with obstructing justice.
The new indictment is a reworking of the one he received last November, which alleged 4 counts of perjury, and to which he pleaded not guilty. Barry Bonds also denied that he had previously used an untraceable steroid from a San Francisco company known as Balco.
In February, a judge called for the prosecution to update the indictment, by making each alleged falsehood into a separate charge.
Prosecutors had claimed that Barry Bonds lied under oath when he said in 2003 that he had never knowingly taken drugs to improve his performance. The new reworked indictment makes no mention of lying in its wording.
The probe into Balco has already exposed the doping offences of other well-known athletes, including Olympic sprinter Marion Jones who lost her medals after she pleaded guilty to using steroids.
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