Bonds' attorneys seek probation, not prison
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Lawyers for Barry Bonds asked a federal judge on Tuesday for probation when Major League Baseball's career homerunner is sentenced for obstruction of justice later this month.
Bonds, 47, was convicted in April of obstructing a grand jury's sports doping investigation with an evasive answer. Prosecutors dropped three other perjury counts after the jury deadlocked on those charges, which accused Bonds of lying to the grand jury when he denied knowingly taking performance-enhancing drugs.
Federal sentencing guidelines for conviction on the charge recommend a prison sentence between 15 months and 21 months. But Bonds' lawyers cited an investigative report prepared by a federal probation officer for the judge that also recommended a sentence of probation.
The lawyers said they disagreed, however, with the probation report's recommendation that Bonds spend an unspecified time under "location monitoring," a form of house arrest.
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