Jury set for slugger Bonds' perjury trial

SAN FRANCISCO - Finding San Francisco area residents who lack strong opinions of their World Series champion and their former star player proved no easy task on Monday in jury selection for the Barry Bonds trial.

It took roughly six hours for a federal judge and lawyers to find the 12 jurors and two alternates who will decide if the US baseball home run king lied to a 2003 grand jury when he denied knowingly using steroids.

Some three dozen potential jurors were excused from the initial pool of about 100 before screening began, either because of hardship or prejudice, some after confessing a love of the San Francisco Giants and their ex-slugger Bonds.