Former Giant Bonds Convicted of Obstruction of Justice

Former San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds, Major League Baseball's all-time homerun leader, has been convicted of obstruction of justice.  After 4 days of deliberations a jury in San Francisco Federal Court returned the guilty verdict this afternoon.  The jury could not agree on three other counts against Bonds who was accused of lying to a Grand Jury investigating a Bay Area Lab and its link to steriod use among professional athletes.  The three counts that the jury could not reach a verdict on were dismissed by U.S. District Judge Susan Illston.  Bond's lawyer asked Illston to also dismiss the jury's guilty verdict and a May 20th hearing has been set for that motion.  Bonds was indicted back in 2007 , accused of lying to a Grand Jury in 2003 when he testified he never knowingly had taken steriods.