As expected, MLB’s home run king Barry Bonds pleaded not guilty to perjury charges related to his testimony in the much-publicized steroid investigation.The slugger faces 10 counts of lying under oath to a grand jury as well as one charge for obstruction of justice.

The case is finally going to trial on March 2, 2009 after prosecutors had to twice revise the charges because of “legal technicalities”. In fact, this is the third time Bonds has entered a plea in the case.

Yesterday the judge presiding in the case released hundreds of documents related to the case including documentation of conversations involving the left-handed slugger Bonds discussing injections and other docs confirming failed drug test.

Those failed tests in question relate to evidence prosecutors say was collected in a September 2003 raid of BALCO. The defense questions the validity of those tests and are asking they be removed.

Some feel Bonds is being singled out but the bottom line is, if Bonds lied under oath, after hitting 762 over the fence he may be spending two years behind one; a taller one decorated in barbed wire.

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