{"id":59470,"date":"2015-04-24T07:30:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T11:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59470"},"modified":"2015-10-29T06:20:49","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T10:20:49","slug":"more-comedy-from-the-9th-circus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59470","title":{"rendered":"More Comedy from the 9th Circus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, the\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 gang of fools called the Ninth Circus Clowns of Unreal<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201caugust body\u201d called the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals out on the Left Coast has given us all some new comic relief.<\/p>\n

It seems that a 5-member panel of that\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 clown Krewe<\/i><\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 group of distinguished jurists has decided that it\u2019s OK to be deliberately evasive when testifying before a Grand Jury<\/i><\/a>. But only if your deliberately evasive answers fall in the \u201clittle white lie\u201d or “What difference does it make?” categories.<\/p>\n

Specifically, a five-member panel of the US 9th Circuit has overturned Barry \u201cMy Head Just Got Bigger\u201d Bonds\u2019 felony conviction for obstruction of justice. The stated rationale was that Bonds\u2019 testimony for which he was convicted of obstruction of justice – while evasive and highly implausible on its face – did not regard an issue of \u201ccentral importance\u201d to the government\u2019s investigation. Since the issue was not one that was of \u201ccentral importance\u201d, per the Ninth Circus<\/span> Circuit Panel, it was therefore permissible for Bonds to be evasive and dissemble while under oath.<\/p>\n

So, it\u2019s OK to lie when under oath, or when answering an investigator\u2019s questions\u00a0 – sometimes. But only about
\n“small stuff”. And sometimes it\u2019s not OK.<\/p>\n

Yeah, that makes “perfect sense”.\u00a0 Does anyone but me see a potential problem with that?<\/p>\n

Hey, I understand the concept of a prosecutor conducting a \u201cfishing expedition; no, I don\u2019t support that at all. But regardless of how you feel about PEDs in professional sports, the drugs involved were and are illegal. The questions Bonds was asked hardly seem unrelated to the subject of PEDs. Further, his answers seem to me to have been designed more to avoid going on the record – or exerting Fifth Amendment rights – than anything else.\u00a0 IMO, it’s clear he was simply avoiding answering relevant questions clearly and completely.<\/p>\n

As always, YMMV. Bonds\u2019 testimony can be found here<\/a>; read it and decide for yourself. Be forewarned that it’s nearly 150 pages.<\/p>\n

IMO this isn\u2019t exactly a shock.\u00a0 Hey, the case was heard by a panel from the Ninth Circus, located out on the Left Coast. They seem to use a different definition of “reality” much of the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, the\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 gang of fools called the Ninth Circus Clowns of Unreal\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201caugust body\u201d called the … More Comedy from the 9th Circus<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,213,215,185,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-baseball","category-crime","category-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}