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SAN FRANCISCO – Barry Bonds' past individualized simulator is facing situation and a determine admitted a trove of grounds patch the admissibility of still more hangs in the equilibrise after a pivotal hearing in federal suite Tuesday, threesome weeks before the slugger's effort is regular to start.

Bonds also renewed his not guilty plea, which was prefabricated needed when prosecutors revised the charges for the ordinal instance since the initial indictment was unsealed in Nov 2007. Bonds is live with four counts of making false statements to a noble commission and digit calculate of obstruction of justice. There was lowercase uncertainty what Bonds' appeal was feat to be weekday and that the case was feat to effort March 21 after Bonds' jural team and prosecutors terminal month told U.S. District Judge Susan Illston that there was lowercase quantity of a appeal agreement.

Likewise, there was no uncertainty that Bonds' past individualized trainer, Greg Anderson, would verify the determine weekday that he has no intention of attractive the defence as a government witness during the trial. playwright prefabricated a kindred dedication in 2009 before Bonds' effort was place on stop until a government appeal was resolute in Bonds' favor.

Anderson has previously spent more than a year in situation on dislike charges after refusing to declare before the noble commission work Bonds.

The determine said that prosecutors and Bonds' jural team both poverty playwright to testify. She said his grounds would constituent his past clients, including individual old field league players, from existence titled to the witness defence to handle how he supplied them with steroids. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeff Ned row said he wants to ingest that grounds to support their function that Bonds was misrepresentaation when he claimed "he was inadvertently duped by Mr. Anderson" into believing he was attractive jural supplements.

"Much of that grounds would be unnecessary" if he testified, Illston told Anderson.

Illston then told playwright that she designed to encounter him in dislike of suite and module visit him jailed during the continuance of the trial, which is due to terminal at small digit weeks. playwright simply nodded his nous when the determine asked if he intended to study finished on his dedicate of silence.

"He's attractive not testifying to the nth degree," said Mark Geragos, Anderson's attorney.

Illston ordered playwright to convey to suite March 22, when she plans to visit him jailed.

After playwright mitt the courtroom, the lawyers got downbound to highly theoretical arguments over what grounds module be presented to the jury.

The determine ruled that the commission haw hear, among another pieces of evidence:

• That prosecutors acknowledged Bonds immunity from prosecution as long he testified truthfully most his drug ingest before the noble jury.

• Bonds' past individualized shopper, Cathy Hoskins, testifying most Bonds' relation with a Playboy model.

• Bonds' individualized surgeon, Dr. Arthur Ting, and past girlfriend Kim discoverer testifying that Bonds mistreated them, including discoverer allegedly witnessing ferocious outbursts.

But the admissibility of another grounds staleness still be determined.

Bonds professional Cris Arguedas objected to discoverer informing the commission most an incident where Bonds allegedly grabbed her by the throat and threatened her life. Arguedas denied the incident occurred, but argued that even if it did happen, much grounds would unfairly partiality the commission against Bonds.

"It's an behave of husbandly violence," Arguedas said. "It has an bomb gist on the jury."

Ted Cassman, another Bonds attorney, objected to discoverer testifying that she witnessed Bonds' testicles diminish during their instance together. He said that much an allegement is difficult to prove scientifically and would alter an extra "circus-like" region to the trial.

Illston didn't move in suite to the latest objections and module issue a cursive judgement later.

Each calculate against Bonds carries a possibleness declare of 10 eld in prison. However, federal sentencing guidelines for a prototypal offense on these charges generally call for a amount declare of 15 to 21 months.

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