Judge agrees to put Bonds case on hold

A federal judge today approved the deferral of further Barry Bonds, while government lawyers correct technical flaws in the indictment against the former drummer Giants.

At a hearing organized by the US District Court in San Francisco, Judge Susan Illston a request to the Government concerning the case to June 6. At the same time, prosecutors and legal documents, “she said trying a new formal accusation of borrowing, which has been accused of lying under oath to the Federal Constitution jury, to the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative in steroid scandal the year 2003.

In November, a Grand Jury on four accused Bonds of perjury, and Count von obstruction of justice, but also obligations’ lawyers complain that legal document was insufficient. Act provides that the government can not blame a person a crime by a count indictment, and the judge decided that the bonds were charged in the count of some of the testimonials say five times that many are below sworn.

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