SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — It has been slightly more than nine years since prosecutors and grand jurors alike grilled a defiant Barry Bonds for hours about his relationship with performance enhancing drugs.
Today, weeks after voters overwhelmingly rejected his Hall of Fame candidacy, his lawyers will argue for votes of a different kind that are just as important to his legacy.
The Major League Baseball career leader in home runs is asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to toss out his felony conviction.
Prosecutors will were to square off in a San Francisco courtroom in the morning.
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