Our moderator for this section is Barry Steelman. Hes a graduate of the u. S. Naval academy back in 1970 or maybe 80, somewhere around there. He served two tours aboard uss hendersonson off the shore of vietnam from 1970 twoub 73. Has both the Communications Officer and then as combat information and intelligence officer. He then served two years on a joint chief of staff assignment in the mountain at nor rad in colorado. After leaving the navy in 1975, barry attended law school in baltimore hand a career for over 30 years as a civil Trial Attorney specializing in medical malpractice, construction cases, personal injury and civil rights cases. He was also an adjunct professor of law and presently serves as a facilitator for the Naval Academy, capstone Ethical Leadership ship program in annapolis. He is retired but does mediate several family court cases for courts in maryland. He will introduce us to our guest and they will carry on a discussion. Hes an active member of the American Ve
American veteran center and we appreciate him and his good counsel. Hes elected leader of his Naval Academy class. Put your hands together for Barry Steelman [ applause ] thank you, paul. I first want to welcome all of the students here today as well as all of the active duty retirees, veterans, and honored guests to help us carry out our purpose at American Veteran center. And that is of honoring our past iconic heroes from the greatest generation to the present generation. And to help us educate our future leaders, many of whom are sitting here today. Over these three days you are being exposed to some of the finest and bravest men and women that have so proudly served our country over the past more than a half a century. During this conference, you have heard from various people from different wars, different experiences, and each with different lessons to teach you from their own life experiences. This morning, we are extremely fortunate to have with us as our next panel one of the
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good evening, everyone. seven years after barry bonds told a grand jury he never knowingly took steroids, the home homerun king goes on trial for saying it. tomas roman joins us to el it us what happens next. jury selection begins tomorrow morning. in san francisco federal court in the perjury and steroid use trial. the biggest challenge will be to seat jurors who know little or nothing about the steroid scandal or who don t think bonds is a hero to baseball. jury selection in federal court goes a lot faster than most of us are used to. abc7 s legal analyst says the barry bonds trial will likely be efficient and quick. that s because a federal scwuj wields a lot of control. the judge controls most of the questioning of the jurors. he built his questionnaire last week. the questions range from what websites do you visit? to have you ever visited a giants game. it limits questions the court may ask. it may well be that this jury is picked very, very quickly, po