Barry Bonds Sentenced to Home Confinement for Obstruction of Justice

Home run champion Barry Bonds was sentenced by a federal judge in San Francisco on Friday to two years of probation for obstructing justice in 2003 testimony before a grand jury investigating steroids distribution.

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston also sentenced Bonds, 47, to 30 days of home confinement and ordered him to serve 250 hours of community service.

The former San Francisco Giants outfielder was convicted of the charge in a trial in Illston's court in April. The trial jury found he obstructed justice by answering evasively when he was asked in 2003 whether his trainer, Greg Anderson, had ever given him anything that required a syringe to inject himself with.

Bonds' defense team had sought a sentence of probation and community service, while prosecutors asked for a penalty of one year and three months in prison. Bonds set Major League Baseball's single-season and career home run records while playing for the Giants.

- Bay City News