Article: Jones' attorney: USADA has no compelling evidence

JOSH DUBOW, AP Sports Writer
AP Worldstream
05-25-2004
Dateline: SAN FRANCISCO
Marion Jones was presented with evidence of her possible steroid use by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, but none of it was compelling enough to ban the star sprinter from the Olympics, her lawyer said.

"I didn't see anything today that would provide a basis for them to go forward," attorney Joseph Burton said Monday. "From my mind, what ought to come out of it is, she should be exonerated."

Jones and her attorney met with USADA officials for about three hours in Colorado Springs. She was shown evidence obtained from the federal grand jury investigation into the Bay Area drug lab she has been linked to.

"If she had ...

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