Bonds Appeals Conviction

Former Major Leaguer LF Barry Bonds, the all-time leader in home runs, has appealed his conviction of obstruction of justice.  His lawyers filed a 60-page legal brief with the Ninth U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals arguing the conviction was based on an irrelevant and rambling - but truthful - answer he gave during testimony regarding whether his former trainer Greg Anderson ever gave him performance-enhancing drugs.  Bonds was convicted by a jury of his peers last year in a trial of about three weeks when the 12 members decided that the answer constituted an obstruction of justice (Translation:  That one conviction that the federal government is touting as a victory is about to be thrown out).