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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

It's typical of the government to not bring an indictment on charges they think they may lose at trial -- which is, of course, weak in my mind. God forbid they may only have a 90 percent chance of winning instead of 99%. Greg Anderson's testimony is hardly necessary to indict Bonds for perjury but, again, the govt is terrified to bring a case they may lose, thus holding out for more evidence. All I would want is for Bonds to be treated the same as any other individual who testified before a grand jury or possibly evaded taxes. It sounds as if they have Bonds dead to rights on the tax evasion issue which is easily proven. Why they haven't pulled the trigger makes no sense other than how they, the feds, want to be perceived as not interfering with his chase to 756. Weak, again in my mind, because it treats Bonds differently than John Q. Public.

As for Anderson, he has no sentence -- he is imprisoned indefinitely for contempt. In order to be released from prison on contempt charges, the inmate needs to essentially prove that the continued detention of him will clearly not cause him to change his mind to testify. Usually that happens after 18 months in prison. He hasn't been in that long yet. Of course, if the grand jury's term ends, that would also end the need for Anderson -- but the feds keep renewing which suggests that they plan on indicting Bonds at some point. The statute of limitations on bringing a case against him still has years to go.

Finally, the Greg Anderson issue really does point to the fact that Bonds is wildly guilty of, at the very least, using steroids. Why would a guy who knows nothing about Bonds' use of steroids refuse to answer grand jury questions and instead go to prison? If Bonds was clean as so many of his apologists would have you believe, than why won't Anderson answer the simple questions before him? It's clear to anyone who can view this issue honestly that Anderson is unable to answer these questions honestly in a way that could clear Bonds (sorry for the pun).