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SAN FRANCISCO – A federal judge ruled jurors in the Barry Bonds effort haw not center a freshly rediscovered transcription of digit key witnesses — ridiculed by the accumulation as a "miracle tape" — as prosecutors invigorated their housing against the home-run power Tuesday after 2 1/2 weeks and 25 witnesses.

The accumulation said it planned to call up to sextet witnesses, including possibly Bonds himself, in a show that lawyers sticking module start and modify Wednesday. If that schedule holds up, closing arguments would verify place Thursday farewell and the housing could go to the commission of eight women and quaternary men later in the day.

Bonds, Major League Baseball's flavour and career bag run leader, is accused of quaternary counts of making false statements and digit count of impediment of justice for informing a noble commission in 2003 that he didn't knowingly ingest performance-enhancing drugs. Prosecutors ended their show with a 1 hour, 35 minute datum of portions of Bonds' noble commission testimony.

Dressed in a gray meet and patterned grayness tie, Bonds' alternately watched for the jurors' activity and followed in a three-ring reaper as his grounds was read. One panellist chewed on a pen and invigorated her nous on a grayness thermos.

Jurors and Bonds' care laughed when Bonds' 7 1/2-year-old answer to Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Nedrow was feature back in which the baseball grapheme said: "Yes. You are confusing. I'm informing you," before addressing the noble jurors directly and informing them: "Is he unclear to you guys? I'm glad it's not meet me."

After the continuation rested, Bonds' lawyers filed quaternary motions with the court, the most significant of which asked U.S. District Judge Susan Illston to country Bonds now. They also filed motions to accomplish grounds by quaternary players on how they conventional drugs from past Bonds' trainer, Greg Anderson, grounds on the lateral personalty of steroids and HGH, and conception of the taped conversation between past Bonds business relation Steve Hoskins and Anderson.

Illston said she was disposed to accomplish conception of the Hoskins-Anderson conversation that was played for the commission and grounds from past Bonds' lover Kimberly Bell most his contracted testicles, which the polity says is a lateral effect from steroids use. She also wondered aloud whether the polity had provided any grounds to back its count charging Bonds with misrepresentaation when he said he conventional exclusive vitamins from playwright before the 2003 season.

She gave prosecutors until weekday farewell to move in composition before finalizing her decisions.

Dr. Don Catlin, past nous of the UCLA Olympic Analytical Laboratory, was the last continuation witness, and he testified most Bonds' 2003 piddle test for Major League Baseball's nameless survey, which was seized by federal agents the following year. At Catlin's lab, it proven constructive for Tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), a designer endocrine famous as "The Clear," and a female fertility drug. Three UCLA work employees preceded him to the stand.

Bonds testified to the noble commission that playwright had told him the substances he was gift Bonds were flaxseed oil and rheumatic cream.

While Catlin was testifying, prosecutors submitted a change to allow into grounds a transcription of a 15-minute conversation in 2003 between Hoskins and Dr. President Ting, Bonds' orthopedic surgeon.

But Illston quickly unloved the request.

"It's barely intelligible," she said, adding: "Where you center the study Barry, it's not country what is said." She also said the touchable didn't drop much light on the Bonds case.

The recording, taken from a microcassette recorder, consists mostly of Hoskins, a someone of Bonds since childhood, discussing media accounts of the 2003 polity assail of Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO), which was the center of a endocrine organisation ring in which playwright was a participant. Ting responds "yeah" most a dozen times. When Hoskins tells Ting "the exclusive think narcotics was there" Ting directly finishes the declare with "the drugs."

In the edition of the transcript created by the government, 126 passages over 10 pages are marked "(UI)" for "Unintelligible."

Hoskins testified he spoke with Ting most Bonds and steroids on roughly 50 occasions, while Ting said they had exclusive digit general communicating of steroids. While the enter was subpoenaed in 2005, Hoskins told federal businessperson Jeff Novitzky he found it at a hardware facility on Sun salutation and overturned it over to Novitzky at 10 p.m. that night.

"The enter is highly relevant to Hoskins' quality and thence to the discourse whether the defendant knowingly lied to the noble commission most his ingest of steroids," prosecutors said in their motion. "Admission of the enter is also necessary to sublimate the jury's misimpression that the enter does not exist."

Lead Bonds attorney comedienne Ruby unemployed the transcription as "the miracle enter unconcealed by Mr. Hoskins."

"Hoskins now claims that the transcription has miraculously surfaced as the polity prepares to rest its case" accumulation lawyers wrote. They also said "Hoskins' conduct in making a secret transcription of a clannish conversation was malefactor under both Calif. and federal law" and they asserted "if the transcription is indeed of a Hoskins-Ting conversation, it was prefabricated in an endeavor to wring Mr. Bonds after Bonds fired Hoskins in the spring of 2003."

Illston also ruled the accumulation haw not challenge Hoskins' quality supported on the demand of a recording.

Bonds is charged with misrepresentaation when he said he never conventional steroids from Anderson, never conventional manlike ontogeny catecholamine from Anderson, conventional exclusive vitamins from playwright prior to 2003 and allowed himself to be injected exclusive by doctors.

Ruby said a decision whether to hit Bonds testify in the flesh was to be prefabricated Tuesday night. The other doable accumulation witnesses he mentioned are past Bonds' trainer Harvey Shields, Bonds' attorney Laura Enos, FBI businessperson Heather Young and bureau businessperson Erwin Rogers. The accumulation also haw recall Hoskins to lay the groundwork to introduce a transcription he prefabricated of a conversation with Enos.

Lawyers said Illston had not told the sides whether the commission would deliberate on Fridays, which were off-days during the prototypal digit weeks of the trial.

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