Babo says not guilty to all 15 indictments By Ken Gimblin June 6, 2008     SAN FRANCISCO--At the Federal Court Building on Friday morning ex-Giant Barry Bonds renewed his plea of "not guilty" via his attorney Alan Ruby to 15 federal grand jury indictments for perjury involving the BALCO/steroids scandal; Bonds did not speak at the hearing. Also, Bonds entered a not guilty plea on the first set of charges that amounted to four counts at that time in December 2007. U.S. District court judge Susan Illston said that the charges put together on the indictment were listed as multi charges for each count of perjury against Bonds and ordered the U.S. Attorney's office to file each individually instead of a group of charges for each indictment. The government went back and redid the indictments which have now grown to 15 from four counts. Bonds who appeared in front of the Grand Jury under oath in December 2003 said he unknowingly took steroids masked as "the cream" and "the clear". Prosecutors also are planning to use witnesses, confiscated BALCO lab folders with the initials BB on it; at one point, a former cell mate of Bonds' trainer Greg Anderson said Anderson told him in jail that Bonds told Anderson that Kimberly Bell had to take Bonds to the hospital before game 6 of the 2002 World Series because he had injected himself with steroids in the scrotum and Bonds swelled up "as big as a coke can" and Bell had to drive him to the emergency room to get drained. Bonds took his oath around 9:30AM on Friday morning and was escorted outside to a waiting SUV by his body guards. Bonds, dressed in a black suit, refused to answer questions for the press as he walked by. The contingent waiting outside for Bonds was a lot smaller than the last time he entered a plea back on December 17th. Bonds’ perjury trial is scheduled to start sometime in February of 2009. Ken Gimblin does sports reports on Sportstalk radio each week.

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