Barry Bonds Faces 15-Count Indictment

Barry Bonds, baseball's home run king, is now charged with 14 counts of lying and one count of obstruction in a revised indictment filed Tuesday.

Bonds, a 43-year-old unsigned free agent, was indicted last Nov. 15 by a San Francisco grand jury on four charges of perjury and one charge of obstruction of justice.

But on Feb. 29, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ordered federal prosecutors to rework the indictment to reflect one charge for each falsehood that Bonds is alleged to have made.

The revised indictment, which contains no new accusations, is the culmination of a four-year federal investigation into whether he lied under oath to a grand jury examining steroid use among elite and pro athletes.

Bonds testified in 2003 during the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative case that he never knowingly used steroids.