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

Both sides spent five hours weekday production a commission of eight women and quaternary men with digit women alternates. The jurors were excused weekday salutation without chance testimony, which module begin after inaugural statements.

Along with the swearing 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 personal simulator Greg playwright to jail.

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

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

Bonds, the all-time cheater in home runs (762) and homers in a flavour (73), is covering quaternary counts of lying to a noble commission and digit of obstruction for testifying that he never knowingly took performance-enhancing drugs. He was indicted in 2007, weeks after he played his last game.

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

Several cases nationwide have been derailed by mistrials or appellate reversals after jurors were discovered discussing ongoing trials on social meshwork sites.

"In a broad profile housing such as this, we conceive that in this era of primed access to the cyberspace and social networks it is of preponderant grandness to affect upon jurors in clear, candid and plain arts the responsibility that they comply with the Court's prohibitions against autarkical investigate and/or disclosure from the rattling outset," Bonds professional Cris Arguedas wrote in making the letter to the determine March 2.

The determine hasn't indicated whether she module have that specific instruction.

Dressed in a Stygian suit and grayness tie, the 46-year-old Bonds spent most of weekday speaking quietly with his attorneys and hunting at prospective jurors as they underwent questioning.

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