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Bonds' Trainer To Withdraw BALCO Guilty Plea

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Oct 3, 2006 4:39 pm US/Central

Bonds' Trainer To Withdraw BALCO Guilty Plea

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ― Greg Anderson, the personal trainer to Barry Bonds, wants to withdraw his 2005 guilty plea to steroid distribution and money laundering charges.

That plea came as federal authorities prosecuted a case against the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative.

Anderson's lawyer, Mark Geragos, says it is his intention to withdraw Anderson's guilty plea.

Geragos made his intentions known today in court as he urged a federal judge to release Anderson from prison for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating whether Bonds lied when he told a grand jury that he never knowingly used steroids.

Prosecutors conceded in court that a secret tape recording of Anderson discussing Bonds and undetectable performance-enhancing drugs was in their possession in June of last year. That was a month before Anderson pleaded guilty to money laundering and to distributing steroids.

The authorities never disclosed the tape and Geragos claims is was illegally made and is the basis upon which authorities built their BALCO case against Anderson.

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