( CNN ) -- Baseball legend Barry Bonds will get another day in court to convince judges he did not obstruct justice during a federal investigation into illegal steroids use by pro athletes . The 9th U.S . Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco issued an order Tuesday to have the case reheard by a larger panel of judges . Last year a three-judge panel of that court upheld the former San Francisco Giants star 's conviction . `` Upon the vote of a majority of nonrecused active judges , it is ordered that this case be reheard , '' the brief court order Tuesday read . In 2011 Bonds was on trial facing three counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice stemming from the illegal steroid investigation within major league baseball . A mistrial was declared on the three counts of perjury after jurors reported they could not reach an agreement , but the jury did convict Bonds of one count of obstruction of justice and he was sentenced to two years of probation and fined $ 4,000 . Jurors said at the time they found Bonds to be `` evasive '' in his testimony to the federal grand jury investigating illegal steroids use by pro athletes , but they said that it was not proven that he lied when he said he had not knowingly used steroids . Since then Bonds , 49 , has tried to get the conviction overturned .
Baseball Legend Barry Bonds gets another hearing . He was convicted of obstruction of justice stemming from a probe into steroid use . The 9th U.S . Circuit Court of Appeals has granted a new hearing . Score: 6