New York Times reports that 2003 urine sample from Bonds tested positive
The New York Times is reporting that a urine sample provided in 2003 by Barry Bonds tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.
The sample is part of anonymous testing that Major League Baseball performed six years ago. The results were not supposed to be revealed, even to players. But in an agreement with the union, more testing would begin in 2004 if more than 5% of the results were positive.
Writes Michael S. Schmidt, citing sources talking about sealed evidence:
Although the sample did not test positive under baseball’s program, it was retested by federal authorities after they seized it in a 2004 raid, and it may become a key factor in Bonds’s perjury trial.... Bonds’s trial is scheduled to begin March 2. He faces charges that he lied when he said he had never knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs during testimony before a federal grand jury investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative.
Today United States District Judge Susan Illston will unseal the evidence and hear arguments about its admissibility.
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