Show Time: Barry Bonds Trial Soon Gets Underway

Barry Bonds' perjury case begins on Mar. 2and will run for an estimated four weeks.After more than five years and the expenditure of tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, it?s show time for the government.? The case known as the United States of America vs. Barry Lamar Bonds is coming to San Francisco on March 2 for what is estimated to be a four week run.? The feds will attempt to prove that Bonds committed perjury when he testified before a federal grand jury in December 2003 that he did not knowingly use steroids. ?In layman?s terms, perjury is lying under oath about a material fact when you know your statement is false. Under questioning by prosecutors, Bonds admitted using two substances ? the Cream and the Clear ? that he later determined to be steroids. But he said he didn?t know they were steroids at the time he used them. Bonds insisted he thought his former trainer, Greg Anderson, gave him flaxseed oil and an arthritis balm to alleviate the aches and pains that c...