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Bonds Trial: Hoskins was believable but jury maybe split on him
By Ken Gimblin and Joe Cronin March 27, 2011 |
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SAN FRANCISCO--Barry Bonds' attorney Allan Ruby made testimony from Bonds' former business manager Steve Hoskins appear like he didn't know how to keep his stories straight regarding Hoskins' concern for Bonds health when he recorded Bonds' trainer Greg Anderson in the Giants clubhouse when Anderson said that steroids was undetectable saying he can do injections "all over the place" that can avoid cysts and infections. In the second part of the recording Anderson was heard to have said, "everything I've been doing at this point is all undetectable" Hoskins had told the court that he made the recording to play for Bonds' father Bobby who was a batting coach on the team at that time. Hoskins never got to play the recording for Bonds' father. Also Ruby pointed out that Anderson in the recordings never said that he injected Bonds at anytime. Hoskins' recordings were not admitted in court last week and the transcripts of the conversations with Hoskins' and Anderson were allowed in as evidence. The Feds were hoping that the actual recording would be allowed. The jurors did get to follow the recording with the transcript when listening to it. Ruby challenged Hoskins' in court saying that Hoskins' was disgruntled because Bonds' had called the FBI on him for forging his autograph on various baseball equipment, souvenirs, and memoribila. Hoskins was never charged and was asked to help the feds in exchange for not being charged by the feds for forgery which Ruby asked Hoskins about. Also Hoskins' would have a vendetta against Bonds' for reporting him to the feds and firing him as his business manager. Hoskins said this was all false, that the FBI didn't offer him any deals and that he testified "Barry's a good friend, a very good person, and also one of the best baseball players there's ever going to be, and that is one of the reasons why in 1999 and 2000 I was trying to stop him from taking steroids I thought it was bad for him" said Hoskins. Steve Hoskins' sister Kathy Hoskins scheduled to testify: On Monday Barry Bond's former girlfriend and mistress Kimberly Bell and Bonds' former personal assistant Kathy Hoskins are scheduled to testify about personally seeing Bonds injecting himself with a needle. What was in the needle can't be proven but Hoskins also will testify that she saw Bonds' trainer Anderson inject Bonds with a needle. Kathy Hoskins will be questioned about when and where did this take place and under what circumstances. Hoskins reportedly was in the Giants clubhouse working for Bonds on his appointments and other business related matters. She saw Anderson injecting Bonds in the clubhouse before a game. Hoskins can not say what he was being injected with medically but she did see the syringe and it was being handled by Anderson. Along with Kathy Hoskins who will testify at trial on Monday will be Bell, former Giants trainer Stan Conte, and IRS agent Mike Wilson. Wilson will share some of the issues that former IRS investigator Jim Novitzky was investigating on. Wilson is expected to talk about the BALCO lab raid and the raid on Greg Anderson's house and the confiscation of the doping calenders and other records that the feds took in the raid. Anderson refused to testify in this trial and the doping calenders were one of the topics that prosecutors wanted to talk with Anderson about along with Bonds' growth in his skull, hands and feet. The court called for a recess last Friday. Joe Cronin and Ken Gimblin have been covering the Barry Bonds BALCO/steroids trial for Sportstalk radio |
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