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"content": "\u003cp>People have been lining up outside the U.S. Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/shermancourt/status/591720287818948608\">for days\u003c/a> hoping that they will be among the lucky ones to get a seat for Tuesday's historic arguments on gay marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of now, gay marriage is legal in 36 states. By the end of this Supreme Court term, either same-sex couples will be able to wed in all 50 states, or gay marriage bans may be reinstituted in many of the states where they've previously been struck down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday's Supreme Court arguments focus on two questions: First, whether bans on gay marriage are constitutional; and second, if they are, whether those states with bans may refuse to recognize out-of-state gay marriages performed where they are legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"PkjnTtzffR7iuVGDzzJWQzSmPrpYTCmF\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court has scheduled an extraordinary 2½ hours of argument and will make the audio available online later Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four states — Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee and Kentucky — are defending their bans. They won their cases in the lower court, and because other appeals courts threw out bans enacted in other states, the Supreme Court now must resolve the conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high-stakes legal battle is the culmination of a decades-long struggle in the courts, state legislatures and at the ballot box. During that time, public opinion has changed, and has done so more rapidly — and dramatically — than on any major social issue in memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1996, public opinion polls showed, on average, only 27 percent of the public favored legalization; this year, although many states still adamantly resist gay marriage, public opinion polls put the approval number nationally at well over 50 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday's courtroom battle pits states' rights against the fundamental right to marry; it pits the traditional definition of marriage against a more modern definition; and it pits majority rights against minority rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the court are the consolidated cases of 12 couples and two widowers. Among them are nurses, teachers, veterinarians, an Army sergeant and businessmen and women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many call themselves \"accidental activists,\" because they filed lawsuits not to further a cause but because of the way the bans affected their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Michigan, for instance, Jayne Rowse and April DeBoer have four adopted children, two with disabilities. Because the state does not allow same-sex couples to adopt, but does allow single people to adopt, each of the women has adopted two of the children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a marriage,\" says DeBoer. \"We just don't have a piece of paper that legally binds us to each other.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wake-up call about their legal status came on a two-lane highway one snowy night when a truck traveling in the wrong lane veered into a field to avoid hitting them head-on. After that harrowing near-miss, they started putting wills and trusts into place to protect the children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was one thing they couldn't do: make sure that if one of them died, the other would get custody of the two children who had been formally adopted by the deceased parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A judge could award that child to someone else,\" says Rowse, \"effectively making them a legal stranger to the child they've helped raise since birth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, to challenge the state adoption laws, they challenged the ban on gay marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the other plaintiffs in Tuesday's case are, like Rowse and DeBoer, people who adopted or had children by artificial insemination; some couples were legally married in another state but now live in a state that bans gay marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette defends his state's ban as an example of democratic rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Who decides: the courts or the voters?\" Schuette asks, rhetorically. \"There are 2.7 million people — voters — who made this decision.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But gay-marriage advocate Mary Bonauto counters that this country does not put the fundamental constitutional rights of minorities to a vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"\u003c/strong>This is not about self-government or persuading voters,\" argues Bonauto. \"It's about the Constitution and whether, constitutionally, same-sex couples can be denied the right to marry that all other Americans enjoy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arguing against her Tuesday will be lawyer John Bursch, representing Michigan and the other states. His task is to convince the justices that Michigan has a rational justification for banning gay marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really not possible to say that the marriage definition Michigan has had since 1805, when it was still a territory before statehood, has all this time been irrational,\" Bursch says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonauto replies that it doesn't really matter what people thought at the time the Constitution was written because the 14th Amendment, adopted after the Civil War, guarantees \"equal protection of the laws.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And this is a court that has recognized time and again that we have to look at current conditions in deciding what equality means,\" Bonauto adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, the Supreme Court has repeatedly said that marriage is a fundamental right that the state cannot abridge without some real justification. It has said that prisoners have the right to marry, and so do people too poor to make child support payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And most famously, in 1967, the court struck down state bans on interracial marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what are the justifications offered by the states? They cite procreation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Michigan has a legitimate interest in encouraging opposite-sex couples to enter into permanent, exclusive unions within which to have and raise children,\" argues Bursch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonauto counters that Michigan allows heterosexual couples to marry even if they are infertile, too old to have children or don't want to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bursch cites other justifications, arguing that men and women bring different attributes to childrearing in a marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Having that diversity of both the mother and a father can be a good thing for children,\" Bursch says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonauto will tell the justices that by denying same-sex couples the right to marry, states are imposing concrete hardships. Because they are not considered one family, unmarried same-sex couples have to buy two health insurance plans to cover themselves and their children; if one of them should die, the other partner and his or her adopted children are not entitled to Social Security benefits. And indeed, the parent whose name is not on the adoption papers could lose custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Denying same-sex couples marriage means that you are increasing the number of children who are raised outside of marriage,\" Bonauto says. The bans in turn deny \"a whole class of children that security, that protection\" of marriage, \"and tell these children and their parents that they \"are not worthy of this most important relationship in life,\" Bonauto says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bursch replies that the states are not trying to disparage anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It comes down to who gets to decide between competing marriage models, which many people feel very strongly about,\" Bursch argues. He reiterates that the choice is up to the electorate, \"and if the courts start imposing their own view of what marriage should be, that's going to do huge damage to the democratic liberty principle that has always animated our Constitution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second question being debated in the Supreme Court Tuesday is whether states that ban same-sex marriage may refuse to recognize legal marriages performed out of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The standard bearer for the recognition cases, and indeed, all the cases, is widower Jim Obergefell. Because his lawsuit was filed first, all of the consolidated cases are known as \u003cem>Obergefell v. Hodges\u003c/em> (Richard Hodges is the Ohio official in charge of death certificates).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is the death certificate of Obergefell's longtime partner that is at the center of the recognition question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obergefell and John Arthur were together for 20 years. But by 2013, Arthur was bedridden and dying of ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease). On June 26, the two men were watching TV as news flashed across the screen that the Supreme Court had struck down the federal law barring the national government from recognizing gay marriages performed in states where they are legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just immediately leaned over, hugged him, gave him a kiss and said, let's get married,\" Obergefell recalls. \"It just seemed like the most perfect thing possible to do at the moment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends and family quickly raised the money for a medical charter to Maryland, where gay marriage is legal. The couple exchanged vows as the plane sat on the tarmac and then headed back to Cincinnati.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a few days later, though, the two would learn that Ohio would not recognize Jim as a surviving spouse on John's death certificate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was heartbreaking,\" Obergefell says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal judge, acting on an expedited basis because of John's health, ordered the state of Ohio to record Jim as the surviving spouse when the time came.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months and 11 days later, John Arthur died, and Obergefell's name was listed as the surviving spouse on the death certificate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state appealed, and if it wins in the Supreme Court, it can reissue the death certificate without Obergefell's name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Supreme Court Tuesday, gay-marriage advocate Douglas Hallward-Driemeier will tell the justices that states have long recognized each other's marriages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The history of state recognition of marriage is that a marriage that was valid where it was celebrated is going to be recognized in the new state, even if that couple could not have gotten married in that state,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason for that is that people travel across state lines all the time, and their marriage travels with them. It doesn't matter, notes Hallward-Driemeier, that the wife, for instance, is too young to get married in some of the states a couple may subsequently live in or travel through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four states defending their gay-marriage bans also defend their anti-recognition laws, but lawyers for the four declined to be interviewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kyle Duncan, who represents 15 other states with nonrecognition laws, argues that the issue of gay marriage is unique, especially in the context of the state's prerogative to define and regulate marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Before 2003, no state in the United States had recognized same-sex marriage,\" Duncan says. 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"content": "\u003cp>Attorneys representing the family of a 20-year-old Guatemalan immigrant shot and killed by two San Francisco police officers in late February filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Friday alleging that independent autopsy findings contradict the Police Department's account of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights attorney Arnoldo Casillas, who is representing Amilcar Perez Lopez's parents, said the version of events delivered by Police Chief Greg Suhr at a town hall meeting on March 2 was \"physically impossible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The truth is that Amilcar Perez Lopez was unjustifiably, illegally, in the worst way shot and killed,\" Casillas said. \"The two police officers here had no reason to shoot and their version is absolutely, unequivocally inconsistent with all of the physical evidence, all of the witness testimony. It is a lie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Man-killed-by-S-F-police-didn-t-speak-English-6110102.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 2\u003c/a> meeting that two plainclothes officers, later identified as Craig Tiffe and Eric Reboli, responded to a call of a man with a knife at about 9:45 p.m. on Feb. 26. Suhr presented dispatch records showing reports of a person with a knife chasing another man on Folsom Street, between 24th and 25th streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We’re asking Chief Suhr to basically walk back his statements and admit he got it wrong, because we’re convinced he got it wrong.'\u003ccite>Bill Simpich,\u003cbr>\nAttorney for Amilcar Perez Lopez's parents\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Suhr said a man with a bicycle, who has not been publicly identified, refused to sell his bike to Perez Lopez, and the construction worker began chasing him with a knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers confronted Perez Lopez and the bicyclist between two parked cars on the east side of Folsom, according to a Police Department rendition of the scene and statements by Suhr. It was not far from where Perez Lopez lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The suspect was on the sidewalk side of the car, the victim was on the street side of the car,\" Suhr said, describing Perez Lopez as the suspect and the unidentified bicyclist as the victim. \"The officer attempted to position the suspect so he could see his hands, when the suspect turned, slashing the knife across at the officer, causing the officer to jump back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said witnesses heard both officers order the suspect to get back and drop the knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The officers were approximately 5 to 6 feet away when the suspect charged at one of the officers with a knife raised overhead,\" Suhr said. \"Both officers discharged their firearms, one firing once, one firing five times. They struck the suspect. The suspect did not survive his injuries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Witnesses interviewed by \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2015/03/conflicting-versions-of-police-shooting-suppressed-by-fear/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mission Local\u003c/a> and another attorney representing Perez Lopez's family say Perez Lopez wasn't holding the knife when officers opened fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco medical examiner's autopsy report is not completed, a spokeswoman for the office said Friday, and she declined to give further information. Casillas said the official autopsy was conducted March 2, and Suhr addressed an angry Mission District crowd that evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Did he know? Or did he not inquire?\" Casillas said. \"You guys shot this kid in the back. This charging with a knife thing isn’t going to work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independent forensic pathologist Jay Chapman, retained by Casillas, said it's impossible to exactly trace each one of the gunshots until the official autopsy report is released, but there is \"no question\" that all six gunshots hit Perez Lopez from behind. Read Chapman's \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/262998787/Amilcar-Perez-Lopez-Private-Autopsy-Report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">preliminary report here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A 3-D rendition of gunshot trajectories provided by attorneys for Perez Lopez's parents.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/262995143/content?start_page=1&view_mode=slideshow&access_key=key-TAKZ9nairCWwF5w8lzP2&show_recommendations=false\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.3323485967503692\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_58591\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Witnesses say that he was ordered to put down the knife, and that he did throw down the knife before the shots were fired,\" said attorney Bill Simpich, who lives near the location of the shooting and started taking statements soon after the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simpich, also representing the family of Perez Lopez, said he has spoken to witnesses who said the unidentified bicyclist \"may have borrowed or stolen Amilcar's cellphone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the bicyclist and Perez Lopez knew each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said on March 2 that he didn't know if Perez Lopez knew the man with the bike, but he said the bicyclist thanked police on the scene, \"saying he thought the officers saved his life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re asking Chief Suhr to basically walk back his statements and admit he got it wrong,\" Simpich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casillas also requested a federal investigation into the shooting. 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This charging with a knife thing isn’t going to work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independent forensic pathologist Jay Chapman, retained by Casillas, said it's impossible to exactly trace each one of the gunshots until the official autopsy report is released, but there is \"no question\" that all six gunshots hit Perez Lopez from behind. 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The full court has never sat on a case since it began using the “limited en banc” panels in 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors also could petition the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wendy Thurm, a sports journalist and attorney, told KQED she wasn’t surprised by the 9th Circuit’s action. “A lot of observers, including myself, were surprised that the original appellate court did uphold a conviction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know how much this is going to change public opinion, though. A lot of people think he’s a bad guy, a lot of people have drawn their own conclusions about what he did or didn’t do, whether he should be in the Hall of Fame. That debate will continue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voting for the Baseball Hall of Fame is limited to members of the Baseball Writers Association of America, and Thurm said she doesn’t think many of the writers who voted against Bonds in the past did so because of his conviction. “It’s much more focused on their belief that he did take steroids, and that in their view, that disqualifies him. So I don’t think this 9th Circuit decision opens the door for him to waltz into the Hall of Fame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think what it does do is open up the door for him to have a more public relationship with the Giants organization going forward. He was a spring training instructor last year, he was even at the Giants game last night. That could be part of a goodwill effort to try to change people’s minds about the Hall of Fame. But also, the Giants are now in a position to embrace Bonds for who he was. His home run record and his chase for the record kind of built AT&T Park, and filled that ballpark in the first five or six years that it was open, even as the team’s record itself had started to wane. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the opinion:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/262762988/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-Fci4r05ckYCa4tDUUPdS&show_recommendations=false\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7729220222793488\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_51464\" width=\"800\" height=\"1066\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, July 1, 2014\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has granted Barry Bonds’ request for a rehearing of a challenge to his conviction for obstruction of justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2014/07/01/11-10669%20EB%20order.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a one-paragraph order issued Tuesday\u003c/a>, the court said a special panel of 11 judges would look again at the 2011 guilty verdict. No date has been set for the rehearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for Bonds have argued that the former Giants star and Major League Baseball’s all-time home-run record holder was wrongly convicted, based on a rambling but truthful statement made during federal grand jury testimony in 2003. The panel had been convened to investigate the use of performance-enhancing substances in professional sports, a practice that had become widespread in baseball in the late 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘Bonds would like to go in the Hall of Fame, and I think he’s convinced that getting that felony conviction expunged would enhance his opportunities in that regard.’\u003ccite>— Lance Williams,\u003cbr>\nCo-author of ‘Game of Shadows’\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bonds was one of several players who got special scrutiny because of a surge in their home-run numbers. Bonds set the single-season home-run record of 73 in 2001 and retired with the sport’s career record of 762.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years after the 2003 grand jury appearance, prosecutors charged Bonds with four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction in connection with his testimony that he had never taken performance-enhancing drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During deliberations, the jury in the case was unable to reach a unanimous verdict on any of the perjury counts. But the panel did convict Bonds of obstruction, finding that he was evasive when asked about whether his personal trainer had given him injections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In what’s now known as his “celebrity child” testimony, prosecutors asked Bonds whether his trainer, Greg Anderson, ever gave him “anything that required a syringe to inject yourself with?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonds answered by saying:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I’ve only had one doctor touch me. And that’s my only personal doctor. Greg, like I said, we don’t get into each others’ personal lives. We’re friends, but I don’t we don’t sit around and talk baseball, because he knows I don’t want — don’t come to my house talking baseball. If you want to come to my house and talk about fishing, some other stuff, we’ll be good friends. You come around talking about baseball, you go on. I don’t talk about his business. You know what I mean?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q.\u003c/strong> Right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A.\u003c/strong> That’s what keeps our friendship. You know, I am sorry, but that — you know, that — I was a celebrity child, not just in baseball by my own instincts. I became a celebrity child with a famous father. I just don’t get into other people’s business because of my father’s situation, you see. So, I don’t know — I don’t know — I’ve been married to a woman five years, known her 17 years, and I don’t even know what’s in her purse. I have never looked in it in my lifetime. You know, I just — I don’t do that, I just don’t do it, and you know, learned from my father and throughout his career, you don’t get in no one’s business, you can’t — there’s nothing they can say, you can’t say nothing about them. Just leave it alone. You want to keep your friendship, keep your friendship.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Bonds has already served his sentence in the case: 30 days of at-home detention and a $4,100 fine. Lance Williams, a reporter who has covered the case and co-written a book on it, says that for Bonds, the appeal is about trying to salvage his reputation as one of baseball’s greatest players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Barry wants to be recognized as the greatest home-run hitter in the history of the game,” Williams said Tuesday. “He’d like to go in the Hall of Fame, and I think he’s convinced that getting that felony conviction expunged would enhance his opportunities in that regard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonds retired from the Giants after the 2007 season,\u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bondsba01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> a year during which he hit 28 home runs\u003c/a> and led the major leagues in on-base percentage. Despite evidence that he could still be a productive hitter, no team offered him a contract. \u003ca href=\"http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3647779\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Attorneys for Major League Baseball denied \u003c/a>that teams had acted in concert in declining to sign Bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonds became eligible for the Hall of Fame in 2012. But based on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/08/baseball-hall-of-fame-vote-how-much-will-barry-bonds-lose-by/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the results of the first two years of voting\u003c/a> by members of the Baseball Writers Association of America, it appears unlikely that Bonds will win what the Hall calls “enshrinement” among the game’s immortals. Needing 75 percent of votes cast to get into the Hall, Bonds got 36.2 percent in his first year of eligibility, 34.7 percent in his second.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Wolfram, one of the jurors who convicted Bonds following the three-week trial and four days of deliberations, said she couldn’t help but feel the decade-long prosecution was “all a waste, all for nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just a waste of money, having the whole trial and jury,” she said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government could ask the 11-judge panel to reconsider Wednesday’s decision or could request that all 29 judges on the 9th Circuit rehear the case. The full court has never sat on a case since it began using the “limited en banc” panels in 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors also could petition the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wendy Thurm, a sports journalist and attorney, told KQED she wasn’t surprised by the 9th Circuit’s action. “A lot of observers, including myself, were surprised that the original appellate court did uphold a conviction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know how much this is going to change public opinion, though. A lot of people think he’s a bad guy, a lot of people have drawn their own conclusions about what he did or didn’t do, whether he should be in the Hall of Fame. That debate will continue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voting for the Baseball Hall of Fame is limited to members of the Baseball Writers Association of America, and Thurm said she doesn’t think many of the writers who voted against Bonds in the past did so because of his conviction. “It’s much more focused on their belief that he did take steroids, and that in their view, that disqualifies him. So I don’t think this 9th Circuit decision opens the door for him to waltz into the Hall of Fame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think what it does do is open up the door for him to have a more public relationship with the Giants organization going forward. He was a spring training instructor last year, he was even at the Giants game last night. That could be part of a goodwill effort to try to change people’s minds about the Hall of Fame. But also, the Giants are now in a position to embrace Bonds for who he was. His home run record and his chase for the record kind of built AT&T Park, and filled that ballpark in the first five or six years that it was open, even as the team’s record itself had started to wane. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the opinion:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/262762988/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-Fci4r05ckYCa4tDUUPdS&show_recommendations=false\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7729220222793488\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_51464\" width=\"800\" height=\"1066\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, July 1, 2014\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has granted Barry Bonds’ request for a rehearing of a challenge to his conviction for obstruction of justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2014/07/01/11-10669%20EB%20order.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a one-paragraph order issued Tuesday\u003c/a>, the court said a special panel of 11 judges would look again at the 2011 guilty verdict. No date has been set for the rehearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for Bonds have argued that the former Giants star and Major League Baseball’s all-time home-run record holder was wrongly convicted, based on a rambling but truthful statement made during federal grand jury testimony in 2003. The panel had been convened to investigate the use of performance-enhancing substances in professional sports, a practice that had become widespread in baseball in the late 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘Bonds would like to go in the Hall of Fame, and I think he’s convinced that getting that felony conviction expunged would enhance his opportunities in that regard.’\u003ccite>— Lance Williams,\u003cbr>\nCo-author of ‘Game of Shadows’\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bonds was one of several players who got special scrutiny because of a surge in their home-run numbers. Bonds set the single-season home-run record of 73 in 2001 and retired with the sport’s career record of 762.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years after the 2003 grand jury appearance, prosecutors charged Bonds with four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction in connection with his testimony that he had never taken performance-enhancing drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During deliberations, the jury in the case was unable to reach a unanimous verdict on any of the perjury counts. But the panel did convict Bonds of obstruction, finding that he was evasive when asked about whether his personal trainer had given him injections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In what’s now known as his “celebrity child” testimony, prosecutors asked Bonds whether his trainer, Greg Anderson, ever gave him “anything that required a syringe to inject yourself with?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonds answered by saying:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I’ve only had one doctor touch me. And that’s my only personal doctor. Greg, like I said, we don’t get into each others’ personal lives. We’re friends, but I don’t we don’t sit around and talk baseball, because he knows I don’t want — don’t come to my house talking baseball. If you want to come to my house and talk about fishing, some other stuff, we’ll be good friends. You come around talking about baseball, you go on. I don’t talk about his business. You know what I mean?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q.\u003c/strong> Right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A.\u003c/strong> That’s what keeps our friendship. You know, I am sorry, but that — you know, that — I was a celebrity child, not just in baseball by my own instincts. I became a celebrity child with a famous father. I just don’t get into other people’s business because of my father’s situation, you see. So, I don’t know — I don’t know — I’ve been married to a woman five years, known her 17 years, and I don’t even know what’s in her purse. I have never looked in it in my lifetime. 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"content": "\u003cp>SACRAMENTO — California's marijuana farmers have existed in a legal gray area during the 18 years since the state became the first to allow residents to use the drug for medical purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, veteran cannabis growers are emerging from the shadows to make their voices heard at the Capitol as the groundwork is being laid to legalize pot for recreational use in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marijuana producers from Northern California's Emerald Triangle are hiring veteran lobbyists, forming political action committees and taking elected officials on fact-finding tours — even though large-scale pot farms remain illegal under federal law and growers risk being raided and prosecuted.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'The more consistent we can be in reminding people that unregulated agriculture is the problem ... the better off we'll be.'\u003ccite>Hezekiah Allen,\u003cbr>\nExecutive director, Emerald Growers Association\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The growers' coalition says it's worth the risk to ensure their interests are represented as lawmakers, and ultimately voters, consider regulations that could allow them to do business aboveboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is democracy in action,\" said Casey O'Neill, who grows flowers, vegetables and marijuana in Mendocino County and serves as secretary of the 750-member \u003ca href=\"http://www.emeraldgrowers.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Emerald Growers Association\u003c/a>. \"Every other industry sends lobbyists to tell government how to think, so finally as an industry we are realizing if this is how it works in America, we are going to have to play ball.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their first at-bat is a Wednesday hearing for a bill that would require medical marijuana growers to obtain permits and subject them to environmental inspections. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Monday, April 13\u003c/strong>: Francis Pusok, seen on video last week being beaten by San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies, was released on bail Sunday. (\u003ca href=\"http://web.sbcounty.gov/sheriff/bookingsearch/PrintChargeInfo.aspx?bookno=1504341033\" target=\"_blank\">Booking info here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pusok, 30, was beaten after leading deputies on a chase on car, foot and horseback. Ten deputies were placed on paid administrative leave, and both the sheriff's department and FBI have opened investigations into the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sbsun.com/social-affairs/20150413/man-seen-beaten-by-san-bernardino-deputies-in-video-released-from-jail\" target=\"_blank\">San Bernardino County Sun\u003c/a> reports Pusok was \"arrested on suspicion of evading a peace officer, theft of a horse, possession of stolen property and for an outstanding reckless driving offense. He has not been charged in the case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Pusok's girlfriend complained she could not find out what condition Pusok was in after the multiple blows he took from deputies. Pusok's booking \u003ca href=\"http://www.sbsun.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/storyimage/LG/20150413/NEWS/150419738/AR/0/AR-150419738.jpg&maxh=400&maxw=667\" target=\"_blank\">photo\u003c/a>, published in various newspapers, shows several bruises on his face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office is opening an investigation after a news video showed a suspect being beaten by deputies while on the ground. 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The suspect, Francis Pusok, 30, fled in a vehicle through unincorporated areas and the town of Apple Valley. He then allegedly abandoned the vehicle \"40 miles away from Hesperia in a place called Bowen Ranch,\" NBC said. He then took off on foot and eventually stole the horse, according to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-san-bernardino-deputies-kick-man-pursuit-20150409-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">L.A. Times\u003c/a> reports the chase took three hours. When deputies finally caught up to Pusok, they immobilized him with a stun gun and beat him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Times also reported that 10 deputies have been placed on administrative leave and that the FBI has opened a civil rights investigation into the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Man-on-Stolen-Horse-Stunned-by-Sheriffs-Deputies-in-IE-299250951.html\" target=\"_blank\">NBC4\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The group surrounding the man grew to 11 sheriff's deputies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the two minutes after the man was stunned with a Taser, it appeared deputies kicked him 17 times, punched him 37 times and struck him with batons four times. Thirteen blows appeared to be to the head. The horse stood idly nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man did not appear to move from his position lying on the ground for more than 45 minutes. 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