Barry Bonds’ lawyer seeks to overturn conviction

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A lawyer for Barry Bonds told an appellate court on Wednesday that it should strike down the home run king’s felony obstruction of justice conviction tied to a probe of steroids in sports. “There’s not a shred of evidence that Mr. Bonds was ever given anything to inject himself with or that he ever injected anything,” the player’s attorney, appellate specialist Dennis Riordan, told the court. At least one of three judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel appeared skeptical Bonds committed a crime. …