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(AP) -- The government's star witness in the Barry
Bonds perjury trial has testified that he saw the home run king's
personal trainer leave Bonds' spring training bedroom with a
syringe in 2000.

Steve Hoskins said Wednesday that he saw Bonds and his personal
trainer, Greg Anderson, leaving the master bedroom and he assumed
that Anderson had injected the player with steroids. He testified
that he saw the two disappear into Bonds master bedroom "once or
twice" at each spring training over three consecutive years
beginning in 2000.

Hoskins was a childhood friend of Bonds' and traveled with the
slugger as an assistant between 1999 and 2003. Hoskins testified
that Bonds' significant weight gain began to concern him so much
that he secretly recorded a conversation with the trainer about
steroids so he could convince Bonds' father, Bobby Bonds, that his
son was using the drugs.

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