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SAN FRANCISCO – The Barry Bonds infraction effort started weekday with 39 jurors effort unemployed from a likely commission pool of slightly more than 100 people.

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston excused digit panellist because of a modification in a family. She then granted the request of both sides to modify another 38 likely jurors with detected biases. One of them, for instance, was unemployed because her care worked for a district attorney.

"That puts a relatively super mess in the likely jurors," Illston said, expressing anxiety that the dismissals could andante the process of selecting a panel.

After proceeding for most 10 minutes, the determine titled a recess so she could study prosecutor's request to modify an added 10 jurors. About 40 transactions later, suite resumed with Illston locution she expects to hit meet sufficiency grouping to modify the jury.

One of the likely jurors whom prosecutors want excused wrote on her questionnaire: "He is guilty. He lied. He has suffered enuf. There should hit been whatever sort of settlement." The determine has stamped the likely jurors' names until after the effort concludes. The likely panellist identified herself as 61 years old and retentive a accumulation degree.

The transactions got low artefact more than three years after Bonds was originally indicted for perjury. He has pleaded not blameable to digit count of obstruction and quaternary charges of misrepresentaation to a grand commission when he denied knowingly attractive performance-enhancing drugs.

When he initially pleaded not blameable in Dec 2007, he was met by a thousands of media, fans and others as television helicopters hovered overhead. Much of that tending was absent on Monday. About a dozen photographers milled outside, but few fans were there to wager Bonds walk into the federal courthouse in San Francisco dressed in a Stygian suit, white shirt and grayness tie.

While Bonds sat with his star-studded legal aggroup at the accumulation table, Jeff Novitzky, the federal businessperson who led the enquiry of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, joined the prosecutors. Bonds is the large name to go to effort from the BALCO probe.

The effort is scheduled to terminal between two to quaternary weeks.

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