Barry Bonds Trial Hones In On Drug Testing Procedure On Wednesday

The Barry Bonds trial continues on, and while you and I may be running out of steam, we’ve still got a couple weeks to go. Here’s to justice!

Tuesday’s action ended with former Giants player Marvin Benard on the stand, so he returned for cross-examination on Wednesday morning. Benard had said that Greg Anderson told him he was providing an “undetectable steroid,” but Bonds’ lawyer Allen Ruby questioned whether Anderson had used those specific words. Ruby’s trying to establish that players may not have known exactly what they were being given.

Up next was former player Randy Velarde, who testified about meeting Anderson and receiving injections, but never being specifically told about the “cream” and the “clear”.

That was it for the players - at least for the time being - so we advanced to IRS agents and laboratory workers, called to explain in detail how a sample is obtained and then tested. Ruby lashed into one agent, Mike Wilson, for failing to explain in detail how samples being used as evidence are handled, but outside of that, it’s all been pretty dull. The prosecution is just using these witnesses to show that Bonds’ seized urine sample was handled appropriately, and that there aren’t any questions about the reason it tested positive for THG and clomid (used by some athletes to mask steroid side effects) in 2006.

Onward we go. Lots of talk about testing urine samples. Because prosecutors aren’t able to use urine samples from earlier years that allegedly showed Bonds as testing positive, this is actually pretty important.

Follow along in this StoryStream for updates, and also get more information from SB Nation Bay Area’s Barry Bonds trial coverage, for which David Fucillo will be live-blogging - and live-tweeting - from the courtroom. You can follow on Twitter @SBNBayArea.