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Article: Jones, Montgomery led officials to former coach Graham
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- May 20, 2008
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Trevor Graham's attorney told a federal jury Monday that several athletes caught doping are using the former track coach as a "convenient scapegoat for their past mistakes and their past drug use."
Graham has pleaded not guilty to three charges that he lied to federal investigators about his relationship with the steroids dealer Angel "Memo" Heredia of Laredo, Texas, as his trial started with opening statements.
The two-week trial will give Barry Bonds' legal team another preview of how the government's top doping detective, former IRS agent Jeff Novitzky, fares on the witness stand. Novitzky led the raid of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, or ...