SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -A federal judge has barred prosecutors from using three positive steroid tests and other key evidence in Barry Bonds’ trial next month because of his personal trainer’s refusal to testify.
The ruling issued late Thursday was expected. The judge had said earlier she was troubled by the admissibility of the test results because prosecutors couldn’t conclusively tie them to Bonds.
Prosecutors allege that Bonds’ trainer, Greg Anderson, collected the urine samples and delivered them for testing to the Bay Area Co-Operative Laboratory in 2000 and 2001.
But Anderson has refused to testify. The judge said without his testimony, prosecutors cannot link the tests to Bonds.
Federal agents seized the samples when they raided BALCO in 2003.
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