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Major leaguers Jason and Jeremy Giambi were expected to testify Tuesday as Barry Bonds' perjury trial resumed.
It's expected that the brothers will be the first of several athletes called to testify. Both have admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs they obtained from Bonds' personal trainer, Greg Anderson.
As the trial resumed, the testimony remained intimately personal for Bonds, though not as personal as Monday's testimony from Kimberly Bell, Bonds' former mistress.
Prosecutors called two witnesses to the stand to discuss the urine samples Bonds provided during the 2003 season. Prosecutors allege those samples tested positive for the designer steroid THG.
The two witnesses were necessary to establish that Bonds' samples were handled properly and can be used as evidence.
On Monday, Bell testified that Bonds told her he used steroids and became verbally abusive toward her at the end of their nine-year relationship.
The greatest hitter of his era threatened "to cut my head off and leave me in a ditch," she said. "More than once."
She said Bonds told her "he would cut out my breast implants because he paid for them."
As for the Arizona house he had helped pay for, "he told me he would burn it down."
Bell said the slugger attributed a 1999 elbow injury to steroids use. She also discussed how Bonds became verbally abusive and said that his physique changed, offering a lurid description of his shrinking testicles, back acne, scalp hair that fell out and chest hair that turned gray. Such mental and physical symptoms are associated with steroid use.
Prosecutors allege Bonds lied when he told a federal grand jury in 2003 that he never knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs.
Bell met Bonds in 1994 and testified that from 1999 to 2001, "he was just increasingly aggressive, irritable, agitated, very impatient."
Source: AP
It's expected that the brothers will be the first of several athletes called to testify. Both have admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs they obtained from Bonds' personal trainer, Greg Anderson.
As the trial resumed, the testimony remained intimately personal for Bonds, though not as personal as Monday's testimony from Kimberly Bell, Bonds' former mistress.
Prosecutors called two witnesses to the stand to discuss the urine samples Bonds provided during the 2003 season. Prosecutors allege those samples tested positive for the designer steroid THG.
The two witnesses were necessary to establish that Bonds' samples were handled properly and can be used as evidence.
On Monday, Bell testified that Bonds told her he used steroids and became verbally abusive toward her at the end of their nine-year relationship.
The greatest hitter of his era threatened "to cut my head off and leave me in a ditch," she said. "More than once."
She said Bonds told her "he would cut out my breast implants because he paid for them."
As for the Arizona house he had helped pay for, "he told me he would burn it down."
Bell said the slugger attributed a 1999 elbow injury to steroids use. She also discussed how Bonds became verbally abusive and said that his physique changed, offering a lurid description of his shrinking testicles, back acne, scalp hair that fell out and chest hair that turned gray. Such mental and physical symptoms are associated with steroid use.
Prosecutors allege Bonds lied when he told a federal grand jury in 2003 that he never knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs.
Bell met Bonds in 1994 and testified that from 1999 to 2001, "he was just increasingly aggressive, irritable, agitated, very impatient."
Source: AP