Barry Bonds was sentenced yesterday on his conviction of obstruction of justice from 8 years ago. When Bonds was first approached in 2003 about use of steroids, Bonds lying to the grand jury stating that he never was never injected by anyone other than his doctor. Earlier this year when Bonds was on trial, along with others from the MLB for use of steroids, Bonds gave detailed accounts of his use of steroids over the years. Barry Bonds was convicted of obstruction of justice off of this testimony during his perjury trial back in April of this year and his sentencing came yesterday from Judge Susan Illston. The prosecutors asked for Bonds to do 15 months in prison but Judge Illson was a lot easier on Bonds. Judge Illston was sentenced to 3o days house arrest, 2 years probation, 250 hours of community service with youth groups and a $4,000 fine. Bonds plans to appeal his sentence and Judge Illston agreed to stay his sentence through the appeal.
Do you think that the sentence for Bonds was fair?
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