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		Babo case gets put on hold three more months By Ken Gimblin and Joe Cronin March 21, 2008
	Home run king Barry Bonds, wearing a San Francisco Giants baseball cap, watches the Sacramento Kings take on the Los Angeles Lakers in an NBA basketball game at the Staples Center in Los Angeles in this March 9, 2008 file photo. The lack of contract offers to Bonds will be examined by the baseball players' association as part of its annual review of the free-agent market, union head Donald Fehr said Tuesday, March 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, File)
	SAN FRANCISCO-Former San Francisco Giant outfielder Barry Bonds' trial for perjury has been delayed three more months. Prosecutors in court Friday telling U.S. District Judge Susan Illston that they plan to obtain a new indictments against Bonds. The first indictment had four perjury charges with multiple charges applied to it. The prosecution was suppose to make each perjury charge stand on its own and not add to it. The Government now plans to change the previous charges as to which ones is still under question but it was raised when the indictments first were served that multiple charges per each perjury was not precedent and that it appeared to confirm what Bonds lawyers have said all along that the government was on a witch hunt against Bonds by padding the perjury charges. Illston concurred and said that the charges were lumped together against a fewer amount of perjury charges. Bonds lawyers have moved for the charges to be dropped because of the unprecedented indictments but Illston didn't move to drop the charges. U.S. District Attorney Matt Parrella didn't say when the new perjury charges would be ready but the government is dropping some of the old ones and adding new ones. The government would like to take this opportunity to change the charges anyways to allow them to update new findings on the case. So far the big story is that government claims that Bonds perjured himself when he told the grand jury in December 2003 that he did unknowingly use steroids and thought they were flaxseed oil and rubbing balms. The government has obtained folders and calenders from the old BALCO labs in Burlingame which have positive steroids tests with the name tabs marked "BB" and say that Bonds had tested positive for steroids and lied about it after being questioned by the grand jury knowing that the products he used from BALCO were in fact laced with steroids which were "the cream" and "the clear". The case has been re-scheduled to start by early 2009 and that Bonds could technically play ball this season without interruption from a trial. Ken Gimblin and Joe Cronin are covering the BALCO/steroids scandal on Sportstalk 1690 KFSG Sacramento.