Barry Bonds Jury of 8 Women, 4 Men to Hear Opening Statements
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Barry Bonds’s perjury trial, to be heard by an eight-woman, four-man jury that includes a data center engineer at Amazon.com Inc., two nurses and a business college student, is scheduled for opening statements today.
Bonds, 46, who holds Major League Baseball records for career and single-season home runs, faces four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice for telling a 2003 grand jury he didn’t knowingly take performance-enhancing drugs. The trial in federal court in San Francisco is expected to last as long as four weeks.