After seeing Stubblefield case Bonds feels the heat By Ken Gimblin and Joe Cronin January 25, 2008     SAN FRANCISCO--Lawyers for former Giants outfielder Barry Bonds were back at the Federal Court House in San Francisco on Wednesday, this time to ask U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston to consider throwing out the 19 different perjury charges against Barry Bonds. Bonds' attorneys said that government prosecutors questions to Bonds in the December 2003 Grand Jury hearing were, "vague, ambiguous, confusing, imprecise, redundant, overlapping, and frequently compound." Bonds is facing perjury charges for telling government prosecutors that he never used steroids and that his personal trainer Greg Anderson never gave Bonds steroids at anytime. Bonds when asked by prosecutors in the Grand Jury investigation in 2003 answered with "no" and "not at all". Judge Illston told the former 49ers and Raiders player Dana Stubblefield that he was looking at time for lying to investigators denying that he used steroids. Stubblefield later recanted, but Illston told him he should have said he did use steroids when investigators asked him that the first time. Illston could sentence Stubblefield for zero to six months but can forgo that length and go for as long as one year to six years in federal prison. Bonds is realizing the pressure is on now that the first pro sports athlete is facing prison time in the BALCO case he wants to change his testimony because he didn't understand the questions the first time. Court TV experts said that it's very unlikely that the Judge will throw out his previous testimony. Bonds is expected back in Allston’s court room in February. Ken Gimblin and Joe Cronin are covering the MLB steroids scandal and both host Sportstalk on 1690 KFSG Sacramento.

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