article_snippet.sent: A federal court of appeals threw out the career home run leader's obstruction of justice conviction on Wednesday, ruling 10-1 that Barry Bonds meandering answer before a grand jury in 2003 was not material to the government's investigation into illegal steroids distribution. '
article_snippet.sent: Overturned: In this April 13, 2011, file photo, former baseball player Barry Bonds leaves federal court in San Francisco, after being found guilty of one count of obstruction of justice .
article_snippet.sent: On April 22, 2015, reversed the sole conviction against baseball slugger Barry Bonds, pictured in 2011, and said former baseball player Barry Bonds could not be tried again on an obstruction of justice charge that resulted from a steroids probe . '
article_snippet.sent: Hank Aaron's was convicted of the obstruction charge in 2011, and a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld the conviction in 2013.
article_snippet.sent: Clemens was acquitted in 2012 of criminal charges Clemens lied to Congress when Clemens denied using PEDs.
article_snippet.sent: Judge Johnnie B. Rawlinson, the only member of The appeals court to back prosecutors, wrote an opinion filled with baseball references that began 'there is no joy in this dissenting judge,' added the judges who sided with Bonds 'have struck out' and concluded 'I cry foul.'
article_snippet.sent: U.S. District Judge Susan Illston declared a mistrial on the three other counts, and the U.S. attorney's office in San Francisco dismissed those charges in August 2011.
article_snippet.sent: the U.S. attorney's office in San Francisco declined comment on the decision. '
article_snippet.sent: In 2009 and `10, the 9th Circuit ruled federal agents illegally seized urine samples and testing records of major league players, with Kozinski saying it 'was an obvious case of deliberate overreaching by the government.'
article_snippet.sent: The 9th Circuit three-judge panel ruled in 2010 the government could not present positive urine samples at Bonds' trial because Anderson refused to testify and there was no witness to authenticate the evidence.
highlights_snippet.sent: When Barry Bonds answered a question about steroid injections by saying Barry Bonds was 'a celebrity child,' Barry Bonds was convicted of obstruction of justice .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: A federal court ruled Barry Bonds meandering answer before a grand jury in 2003 was not material to the government's investigation into illegal steroids .