Federal lawyers finally airbrushed an interesting curve into the Barry Bonds perjury case on Monday, filing a request to prevent jurors from seeing copies of the November 2007 issue of Playboy magazine.
That edition happens to contain a few contributions from Bonds' old mistress — or so I've been told — and could be used for more than just a way for male jurors to pass the downtime during deliberations.
The government asked U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston to bar the home run king's lawyers from using the nude photos of Kimberly Bell and an interview with Bonds that appeared in the magazine to undermine her credibility.
Bell, Bonds' former mistress who is expected to be an important government witness when the trial begins March 21, will testify about physiological and emotional changes, including violent mood swings allegedly caused by Bonds' steroid use, the government said.
Legal eagle Craig Calcaterra has the full analysis of what's going on here, but it boils down to this: The government wants Bell to show up and put Bonds' character into question, but it doesn't want Bonds' lawyers hitting the "turnabout is fair play" button.
Of course, they're making the dangerous assumption that jurors would be turned off by Bell's appearance in Playboy. Kim Kardashian and Kendra Wilkinson both posed for the magazine in the past and I'm fairly confident either could get elected to public office if America's morons were given the chance.
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