Also on Thursday, long-time Bonds trainer Greg Anderson -- one of five men convicted in the BALCO scandal -- was ordered by a federal judge to be released from prison.
Anderson had served his BALCO sentence but was being kept behind bars for 13 months for refusing to testify against Bonds to the grand jury which had been investigating the player for lying to the BALCO grand jury.
Mark Geragos, Anderson's attorney, said his client had not cooperated with authorities but was released after charges were filed because his testimony was not needed to produce enough evidence to bring charges.
In Game of Shadows, a book written by two San Francisco Chronicle reporters, Bonds is reported to have started using performance-enhancing drugs in 1998, becoming jealous of Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire chasing the one-season all-time homer mark that Bonds himself would later eclipse.
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