SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Barry Bonds has pleaded not guilty to 15
federal charges of lying to a grand jury about his performance-enhancing drug use.
Bonds pleaded not guilty to similar accusations in December, but a judge ordered prosecutors to rewrite the slugger's indictment to fix legal infirmities in the document. The new indictment includes no new allegations.
Bonds was re-arraigned Friday on 15 felony counts of lying under
oath. Prosecutors say he lied when he told a grand jury investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative in 2003 that he never knowingly took steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs.
Bonds also is scheduled to appear later Friday in a status
conference in which a trial date may be set.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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