The boundaries of punishment for baseball steroid users has not yet, in the brief history of the saga, included jail time.
The crime itself probably will never result in jail time for an MLB star who climbed the record books with the aid of performance enhancing drugs. It’s their denials under oath that could.
Federal prosecutors will seek jail time for Barry Bonds, reports Bob Egelko of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Bonds will be sentenced next week by a judge on an obstruction of justice conviction. His lawyers are asking for probation and home detention.
According to the report, prosecutors have recommended 15 months of jail time for the all-time home run leader, saying he deliberately misled a grand jury with evasive testimony about steroids.
Steroid users from the 90′s and early part of the last decade have marred reputations, lack of Hall of Fame votes, and perhaps a host of other problems, but we’ve yet to see a baseball superstar go to jail in the aftermat...
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