Bonds Documents by Craig Calcaterra February 5, 2009 For those interested — especially fellow shysters with a PACER login and password — here’s the mother lode of US v. Barry Bonds documents, pleadings, etc. I haven’t had a chance to really go over them in any detail, but my cursory review of it confirms what has been obvious for some time: the government is in deep doo-doo if it can’t somehow compel Anderson to testify, because it needs Anderson to authenticate almost all of the documentary evidence that implicates Bonds. Without it, they are relying on considerable amounts of hearsay. The government has argued that the hearsay is admissible due to several exceptions in the rules, but for reasons that will be boring to anyone who isn’t a lawyer (and most of us who are) I find their arguments to this effect to be less-than-compelling. Obviously the judge may disagree, and however she comes down on the issue is going to, obviously, go a long way towards determining the outcome of the case. If I had to handicap it at this point, however, I still say: Advantage Bonds.