SAN FRANCISCO — Barry Bonds’ post-trial hearing was postponed from Friday to June 17, giving prosecutors more time to consider whether to retry the home run king and allowing the former player’s lawyers another month to sharpen their arguments for throwing out the lone conviction.
The seven-time NL MVP was convicted of one count of obstruction of justice April 13 for giving an evasive answer in 2003 to a grand jury investigating the distribution of performance-enhancing drugs.
The federal court jury, which deliberated for four days, deadlocked on three counts charging the former San Francisco Giants star with making false statements when he denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs and when he said only his doctors injected him.
Bonds’ lawyers and federal prosecutors announced an agreement on the delay Wednesday.
The deadline for Bonds’ motions asking U.S. District Judge Susan Illston to overrule the jury and find him not guilty on the obstruction count or — alternatively — to order a new trial also was reset to June 17.






