This was always dumb to me.
America has a ton of problems. Barry Bonds’ head being 3x the size it was when he first entered MLB was never one that the Feds should have been concerned with.
After decade of trying to put Bonds in jail, they have finally given up.
The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday formally dropped its criminal prosecution of Barry Bonds, Major League Baseball’s career home run leader.
The decade-long investigation and prosecution of Bonds for obstruction of justice ended quietly with the DOJ’s one-paragraph court filing announcing it would not ask the U.S. Supreme Court to consider a lower court’s reversal of his felony conviction.
A jury convicted Bonds in 2011 of obstruction of justice for giving a meandering answer to a federal grand jury when asked about injections. A federal appeals court overturned that conviction in April.
The DOJ could have asked the high court to take the case. Instead, the DOJ said the reversal of Bonds’ conviction would stand.