SAN FRANCISCO — After a nearly decade-long prosecution, the United States Department of Justice on Tuesday formally dropped what was left of its criminal case against Barry Bonds, the major leagues’ career home run leader, over allegations he received performance-enhancing drugs.
The prosecution of Bonds for obstruction of justice ended quietly with the Justice Department’s one-paragraph court filing announcing that its solicitor general would not ask the Supreme Court to consider a lower court’s reversal of Bonds’s felony conviction.
A jury convicted Bonds, the former San Francisco Giants star, in 2011 of obstruction of justice for giving a meandering answer to a federal grand jury when asked about steroids injections.