Baseball home run champion Barry Bonds avoided jail time Friday over providing an evasive testimony to a federal judge eight years ago. He was instead sentenced to 30 days of house arrest, 2 years of probation, 250 hours of community service and a $4,000 fine. The sentence is far more lenient than the 15 months prosecution had recommended.
Bonds was found to have obstructed justice in 2003, when he gave testimony about his suspected use of performance-enhancing drugs. He gave evasive answers to a grand jury when asked if personal trainer Greg Anderson had ever injected him. The sentence, while more lenient than prosecutors recommended, is in keeping with similar steroid-distribution cases.
