SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Positive drug tests, doping calendars and a recorded phone conversation are among the evidence prosecutors intend to introduce when Barry Bonds goes to trial next month for lying to a federal grand jury.
Court documents released Wednesday show the all-time home run king tested positive for three types of steroids from 2002-2003. There's a positive test for amphetamines in a urine sample Bonds gave to Major League Baseball three years ago. Evidence also includes doping calendars Bonds' former personal trainer, Greg Anderson, maintained with the initials "BB," and a handwritten note seized from his house labeled "Barry" that appears to be a laundry list of steroids and planned blood tests.
In addition, documents said that Steve Hoskins, Bonds' childhood friend and personal assistant, secretly tape-recorded a 2003 conversation with Anderson in the Giants' clubhouse because Hoskins wanted to prove to Bonds' father that his son was using steroids.
There is a list of current and former major leaguers who are scheduled to testify for the government at the trial. Bonds is charged with lying to a grand jury in 2003 when he said he never knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs. Federal prosecutors allege that Bonds knowingly used steroids, including a once undetectable designer drug.
Bonds' attorneys wants all that evidence suppressed, and U.S. District Judge Susan Illston is to rule Thursday.
Anderson has been jailed several times for refusing to answer questions before a grand jury and appears to be at the heart of the government's case.
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