What effect will Mitchells work have on the Barry Bonds prosecution and other steroids investigations?
None. Investigators and prosecutors across the U.S. have been putting together steroids and human growth hormone cases for the past five years. They will continue with their work regardless of anything Mitchell says in his report. The only possible effect might be that it would be a bit more difficult to find jurors to decide a particular case if the accused individual were named in the Mitchell report and received some publicity. That would not be a big problem. There is a large universe of American citizens who have never heard of Mitchell or Radomski or human growth hormone and would qualify as jurors. Is it possible that legal liabilities and questions about the reliability of information would cause Mitchell to submit a report without naming players? It is possible, but unlikely. A report without players’ names would amount to Mitchell taking a called third strike with the winning run in scoring position. He could try to explain that legalities prevented him from naming names, but
