Barry Bonds Trial Update: Can the Prosecution Force Him to Take The Witness Stand?

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Chris Fusco

At this point in the Barry Bonds trial, it is critical to understand the prosecution goals. First and foremost, the government is trying to show the jury proof of the slugger’s guilt, beyond a reasonable doubt, through its witnesses and evidence. But second, the prosecution is using the testimony of his former girlfriend (and others) in a attempt to lure Bonds onto the witness stand.

Today, Bonds had to listen to embarrassing testimony from his former mistress, Kimberly Bell, as she told the jury that because of his steroids use his testicles shrunk, he was impotent and had back acne. In its case, the prosecution will try to elicit as much painfully mortifying testimony as possible to eat away at Bonds.

If Bonds believes that besides the embarrassment Bell’s testimony, she has the “ring of truth” then he may be enticed onto the witness stand. Even after a bruising cross-exam of the government’s witnesses, Bonds may believe that he will risk a conviction unless he looks the jury in the collective eye and denies the charges against him.

Remember the last time Bonds took an oath and testified, it was a disaster and the source of the charges he is facing now. The prosecutors must be salivating at an opportunity to have a shot at Bonds himself, on the witness stand under oath, to be cross-examined about the radical changes to his body and to explain to the jury why his trainer is in jail. 

 

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