The feds have asked that the corruption case against former Alaska senator Ted Stcvens be thrown out. They’re doing so because of some prosecutorial misconduct (not an uncommon thing these days, it would seem). This leads Shysterball’s Craig Calcaterra, who’s a real-life lawyer and everything, to wonder whether this bodes well for Barry Bonds:
The Bonds’ [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Barry Bonds’
April 3, 2009
What Does Stevens Decision Mean for Bonds?
April 1, 2009
Sports and the Meddling Prosecutor
Reason has run an exceptional piece on law enforcement’s encroachment upon the sports world. To summarize,
Prosecutors are taking advantage of the drastic post-1970 expansion of the federal criminal code to conduct legal shaming exercises against notorious sporting figures, often using charges that are tangential at best to the behavior that sparked investigative interest in the [...]
March 24, 2009
The Case Against the Case Against Barry Bonds
Barry Bonds’ terminally looming jury trial has been postponed, perhaps until the fall. At some point, though, he’ll probably be dragged in front of his peers on four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice. All of it, of course, traces back to the many-tentacled BALCO scandal, which has been too much [...]
