SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal prosecutors are asking for a two-month postponement of Barry Bonds’ next court date.
The government was expected to announce at a Friday hearing whether it intended to retry Bonds on three perjury charges a jury deadlocked on after a month-long trial in April.
Bonds was convicted of obstruction of justice and a judge was to set a sentencing date on Friday. His lawyers have filed legal papers asking that Bonds’ conviction be tossed out.
A second court hearing was scheduled for July 1 to consider Bonds’ argument that the jury erred in convicting him of making a misleading statement to a grand jury investigating a steroid distribution ring.
Prosecutors on Tuesday asked the judge to delay both hearings until Aug. 26. Bonds’ attorneys oppose the request.
