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By A.J. Perez, USA TODAY
The defense for Barry Bonds called one of the counts against the former slugger "fatally ambiguous" and questioned the prosecution's definition of steroids, according to documents filed in federal court this week.
"The pharmacological term 'steroid' is itself one that lacks a precise definition," Bonds' attorneys wrote in the filing that part of the defense's motion to dismiss.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew A. Parrella, the lead prosecutor on the case, had no comment when reached Thursday afternoon.

Bonds, baseball's all-time home run king, pleaded not guilty to 14 counts of making false declarations and a single count of obstruction connected to his testimony in front of a federal grand jury in 2003. Judge Susan Ilston is scheduled to hear the motion in San Francisco federal court on Nov. 5 and the trial is scheduled to begin in March.
Bonds' defense team appears to be using the same tact employed by the lawyer for former elite cyclist Tammy Thomas, who was convicted earlier this year in the first case linked to BALCO —- the Burlingame, Calif., lab that supplied several athletes with performance-enhancing drugs —- to reach trial. Her lawyer argued that the legal definition of steroids was fuzzy.
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One example, Bonds' attorneys gave in the filing, was androstenedione. The substance, commonly referred to as "andro," became part of the national lexicon when Mark McGwire acknowledged using it in 1998 en route to hitting 70 home runs, topping Roger Maris' mark of 61, set in 1961.
Andro is a steroid precursor, meaning it gets metabolized into testosterone in the body. Congress tagged andro as a controlled substance and it was banned in January 2005.
"Steroid pharmacology is dizzyingly complex," Bonds' attorneys wrote. "The list of substances prohibited by (the World-Anti-Doping Agency), for example, changes yearly, and the standards for inclusion are, to put it mildly, somewhat unclear."
Bonds' attorneys, who were not immediately available for comment Thursday, argued that 10 of 15 counts were either redundant or ambiguous and should be dismissed.

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