Barry Bonds indicted

[J.R.]

FWIW the charges are not all predicated on Bond's denying the use of steroids.

Count 1 (steroids and testosterone prior to 2001 season) and Count 3 (growth hormone and testosterone prior to 2002 seaosn) deal with denial of knowing getting/discussing illegal PEDS with Anderson.

However:

Count 2 (perjury) deals with Bonds' denial he was ever injected with anything by Anderson or Anderson's associates.

Count 4 (perjury) deals with when he was given the cream by Anderson, which Bonds insisted was prior to 2003 season.

Count 5 (obstruction of justice via perjury is predicated on proof of any of the first 4 counts of perjury to a federal grand jury)

Thus he could be convicted of Counts 2, 2 and 5 without it being proven he knowingly took steroids.