"After two full days of deliberations — more than 10 hours of debate — the jurors assigned to determine Barry Bonds's fate came up empty again Monday and failed to render a verdict.

Bonds, 46, is charged with three counts of providing false statements to a federal grand jury in 2003 when he said he never knowingly used steroids, and one count of obstruction of justice. Each count carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence.

Just after 3:30 p.m. Pacific time, the panel of eight women and four men walked out of the jury room looking spent, with drooping shoulders and blank looks on their faces. But their demeanors were not revealing. "