United States Ninth Circuit

In the government's appeal from various adverse evidentiary rulings in the Barry Bonds perjury prosecution, the orders are affirmed where: 1) the district court finding properly focused on the record of untrustworthiness of trainer Greg Anderson in excluding his testimony; 2) the court correctly ruled that the government failed to show that certain statements by Anderson were authorized by Bonds, in excluding those statements; 3) there was sufficient basis in the record to support the district court's conclusion that Anderson acted as an independent contractor rather than an employee; and 4) the district court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to admit certain log sheets as evidence that the samples listed were Bonds'.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/11/2010
• Published 06/11/2010

Judges

• Before MARY M. SCHROEDER, STEPHEN REINHARDT and CARLOS T. BEA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Barbara Valliere, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Dennis Riordan, San Francisco, CA, for the defendant-appellee.