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Article: Graham Is Convicted Of Lying to Investigators; Jury Reaches No Verdict on 2 Other Counts
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- The Washington Post
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- May 30, 2008
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Track coach Trevor Graham was convicted in federal court in San
Francisco yesterday on one count of lying to agents in a federal
steroids probe, but a 12-person jury could not reach a verdict on
two other counts, providing federal prosecutors with only a partial
victory.
Jurors found Graham, the former coach of jailed sprinter Marion
Jones, guilty of lying when he told federal investigators four years
ago that he had not spoken to an admitted steroids dealer since
1997. Prosecutors produced phone records that showed nearly 100
calls from Graham's cellphone to the phone of Angel "Memo" Heredia,