U.S. appeals court to take another swing at Barry Bonds criminal case

By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Baseball home run king Barry Bonds has convinced a U.S. appeals court to reconsider his criminal conviction for obstructing a grand jury probe into steroid sales, according to a court filing on Tuesday. The case involves testimony Bonds gave to a grand jury in 2003 about whether he used steroids to help him bash more long balls when he was trying to break his sport's all-time home run records. Last year, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco affirmed a conviction against him for obstruction of justice. The 9th Circuit has vacated that ruling, and a larger, 11-judge panel will now reevaluate whether his testimony amounted to obstruction of justice.

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