Bonds Found Guilty of Obstruction of Justice, Deadlocked on Perjury Charge

Update 3:40p.m.

A jury this afternoon found San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds guilty of obstruction of justice in his federal perjury trial.

The verdict was read shortly after 2:30 p.m. in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Susan Illston at the Federal Building on Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco.

Bonds, 46, was accused of lying about his use of performance-enhancing drugs in 2003 testimony before a federal grand jury investigating the distribution of such drugs by the Burlingame-based Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, or BALCO.

The jury said it was unable to reach a verdict on three other counts of lying to the grand jury. Illston said she would declare a mistrial on those counts.

Original story:

The jury in the federal perjury trial of baseball home-run champion Barry Bonds has reached a verdict.

The verdict will be read sometime after 1:45 p.m. in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Susan Illston at the Federal Building on Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco.

Bonds, 46, is accused of lying about his use of performance-enhancing drugs in 2003 testimony before a federal grand jury.

The grand jury was investigating the distribution of such drugs by the Burlingame-based Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, or BALCO.

Including the jury deliberations, the trial is now in its fourth week.

--Bay City News