Bonds Defense: Typos Mean He Shouldn't Be Tried

While Clemens' steroid case has grabbed all the media attention as of late, there of course is Barry Bonds and his own problems with lying about using steroids. His legal team, which seems a little more professional then the legal-hacks Clemens has, starts out his defense with the notion that the entire case should be thrown out because there is a typo in the government's case filing. The error is about a failed steroid test of Bonds and the government originally listed it as occurring in 2000 and later in the filing refer to the failed test as mistakenly happening in 2001. The Bonds defense says that this will taint the perception of potential jurors that read the first filing and, thus, would be impossible for Bonds to get a fair trial. Yeah, that's the ticket...because jurors would be confused as to what year he failed the drug test it would be impossible for him to get a fair trial about him lying about his drug use...

I would hope that the case will proceed and this minor issue having no effect on the proceedings...but of course who knows what back-room deals are being sought and dealt at this time and anything may be possible.