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Bonds Hit With New Indictment

Posted May 13, 08 9:25 PM CDT in Crime & Courts,  Sports    Most Covered

(Newser) – The feds filed a new indictment against Barry Bonds today, charging him with 14 counts of perjury for allegedly lying when he told a grand jury that he never used performance-enhancing drugs and one count of obstructing the government's investigation, ESPN reports. The charges are essentially the same ones lodged against baseball's home-run king in November, before a judge ordered prosecutors to rewrite the original five-count indictment.

"It's exactly the same," a law professor at Golden Gate University told the AP. "It's two ways of saying it's lying and there's really no substantial difference between what he was charged with then and what he is charged with now."

Sources ESPN, Associated Press

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In this Dec. 21, 2007 file photo, Barry Bonds arrives at the Philip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco. Federal prosecutors have filed a new indictment against Bonds.   (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)
In this April 6, 2008 file photo, Barry Bonds waves to the crowd while attending a basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Sacramento Kings in Sacramento, Calif.   (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
San Francisco Giants' Barry Bonds waits before his at-bat in the second inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres, in this Sept. 15, 2007 file photo in San Diego.   (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
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