A Federal Appeals court today ruled that Federal investigators were a bit too overzealous in their search and seizure and releasing of names on a "List of Violators" regarding steroids. By now, we all now about the "List of 104", guys who tested positive and names were leaked. Some of those names (A-Rod, David Ortiz and others) have already been released. This also was the big "Turning Point" in both the Balco investigation and the charges leveled against Sort of Home Run King Barry Bonds.
The story from the San Jose Mercury-News here.
The other interesting tidbit here is that unless Prosecutors can get the U.S Supreme Court to hear this, they lose pretty much all of the information/evidence mentioned in this appeal for there court case. This doesn't bode really well on mulitple levels.
Really, I get the Balco part of this, they should continue trying to prosecute them. As for the players, I'm not real comfortable with them being both prosecuted and persecuted for something they did 6 years ago. While what they did wasn't right, they did it and so long as they still aren't doing it, it doesn't help anything to drag this on and on (Just my 2 cents)
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