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SAN FRANCISCO – Now that a commission has been selected in the Barry Bonds perjury trial, the prosecutors and the slugger's lawyers are scheduled Tuesday to hit inaugural statements.

Both sides spent fivesome hours Monday picking a commission of octad women and quaternary men with two women alternates. The jurors were excused Monday salutation without chance testimony, which module begin after inaugural statements.

Along with the dedication in of the commission and inaugural statements, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston is due to beam the jurors discover of the room Tuesday so she crapper beam Bonds' past individualized simulator Greg playwright to jail.

Illston told playwright on March 1 that she plans to hit him kept in safekeeping for the size of the effort if he follows finished as due on his dedicate of silence. Anderson's attorney, Mark Geragos, said he module debate that playwright can't be jailed on contempt charges because he already served a lowercase more than a assemblage on kindred charges after refusing to declare before a noble commission investigating Bonds.

After she dispenses with Anderson, the commission module be sitting and instructed on how to study evidence during the two-to-four hebdomad trial. They module also be rebuked from discussing the housing right of court.

Bonds, the all-time leader in bag runs (762) and homers in a season (73), is covering quaternary counts of misrepresentaation to a noble commission and digit of impediment for testifying that he never knowingly took performance-enhancing drugs. He was indicted in 2007, weeks after he played his terminal game.

Bonds' jural team has asked the determine to specifically visit jurors to chorus from discussing the housing on Twitter, Facebook, or finished instant messaging and another favourite act tools.

Several cases nationwide hit been derailed by mistrials or appellate reversals after jurors were unconcealed discussing current trials on social meshwork sites.

"In a broad profile housing such as this, we conceive that in this epoch of ready admittance to the cyberspace and social networks it is of preponderant grandness to affect upon jurors in clear, direct and plain arts the requirement that they obey with the Court's prohibitions against autarkical investigate and/or revealing from the rattling outset," Bonds professional Cris Arguedas wrote in making the request to the determine March 2.

The determine hasn't indicated whether she module hit that limited instruction.

Dressed in a dark meet and silver tie, the 46-year-old Bonds spent most of Monday speech quietly with his attorneys and looking at likely jurors as they underwent questioning.

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