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Updated at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 13, 2008

BONDS INDICTED
New indictment against slugger Barry Bonds unsealed

Associated Press

Hawaii news photo - The Honolulu Advertiser

Barry Bonds, formerly of the San Francisco Giants, arrives at the Philip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco in this file photo. Federal prosecutors have filed a new indictment against Bonds, which was unsealed today, charging the home run king with 14 counts of lying to a grand jury and one count of obstruction when he denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs.

AP Photo/Tony Avelar, file

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal prosecutors have filed a new indictment against Barry Bonds, charging the home run king with 14 counts of lying to a grand jury and one count of obstruction when he denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs.

Bonds originally was charged with four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice last Nov. 15, but U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ordered prosecutors on Feb. 29 to rework the indictment so that each charge alleged only one lie rather than lumping several alleged falsehoods into single counts.

The new indictment doesn't add any new alleged falsehoods.

The case against Bonds is still built on whether he lied when he told the grand jury that his personal trainer Greg Anderson never supplied him with steroids and human growth hormone.