Barry Bonds obstruction of justice conviction was upheld Friday by a federal judge, who denied the former baseball stars motion for a new trial or acquittal on the charge. A day after hearing oral arguments, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston refused to overturn the only unanimous decision reached by the jury in her courtroom last April 13. Jurors failed to reach a verdict on three counts charging the seven-time NL MVP with making false statements to a grand jury in 2003 when he denied receiving steroids and human growth hormone from trainer Greg Anderson, and when he said he allowed only doctors to inject him. Prosecutors have not yet said whether they plan to retry him on those counts. Bonds is likely to appeal Illstons decision to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Illstons ruling marked a victory for prosecutors in their fight against former baseball stars accused of lying when they denied the use of performance-enhancing drugs. In a Washington, D.C., court room in July, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton ordered a mistrial in the case against Roger Clemens, saying prosecutors introduced evidence he had banned as prejudicial. Bonds was among the biggest stars convicted as a result of an investigation into the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative steroids ring, a probe headed by federal agent Jeff Novitzky. Novitzky also is at the forefront of a different grand jury probe into whether seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong used drugs to get an illicit boost in his victories. Following a 12-day trial and on the fourth day of deliberations, the Bonds jury unanimously voted that the slugger gave the grand jury an evasive answer under oath. Rather than say "yes" or "no" to whether he received drugs that required a syringe, Bonds gave a rambling response to a grand jury, stating: "I became a celebrity child with a famous father." Bonds lawyers argued that the answer wasnt relevant to the grand jury, and that in any case he answered a question that was essentially the same later during that session. Illston did not agree. "Viewed in the light most favourable to the government, the record supports a finding, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the question was material to the grand jurys investigation of BALCO and Greg Anderson for unlawfully distributing performance enhancing drugs, and that defendant endeavoured to obstruct the grand jury by not answering it when it was first asked," Illston wrote. "The conviction can be upheld if (the) defendant endeavoured to obstruct justice, even if he did not succeed." Bonds has not been sentenced on the conviction, with Illston preferring to first rule on the motions to throw out the verdict. The conviction carried a possible sentence of up to 10 years in prison, yet federal guidelines call for 15-21 months. For similar offences in the BALCO steroids ring case, Illston sentenced cyclist Tammy Thomas to six months of home confinement and track coach Trevor Graham to one year of home confinement. Jurors said their final votes were 8-4 to acquit Bonds of lying about steroids and 9-3 to acquit him on lying about HGH use. The panel voted 11-1 to convict him of lying when he denied receiving an injection from someone other than his doctor. Now 47, Bonds holds baseballs season (73) and career (762) records for home runs. He testified before a grand jury that Anderson told him the substances he was giving Bonds were flaxseed oil and arthritic balm, and that Bonds didnt know they were designer steroids. "Did Greg ever give you anything that required a syringe to inject yourself with?" Bonds was asked. "Thats what keeps our friendship," Bonds said in the part of his answer the government charged was a crime. 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