In a new indictment filed in federal court in San Francisco, the government retained only four charges that Bonds made false statements to a federal grand jury in December 2003 when he testified in connection with the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative steroids case. The previous indictment included one count of obstruction of justice, which remains in the current indictment, and 10 perjury counts.
The new indictment appears to be a result of a previous ruling by Judge Susan Illston of United States District Court to exclude some evidence.
That evidence includes doping calendars and log books that prosecutors say link Bonds to his former trainer, Greg Anderson, who spent more than a year in jail for refusing to testify in the case. Without Anderson's testimony, the judge ruled, that evidence could not be authenticated and had to be excluded from the trial.
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