"Barry Bonds entered the Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Courthouse shortly before 8 a.m. local time Monday, took the elevator to the 19th floor and entered Courtroom 10.

And when the packed courtroom rose as Judge Susan Illston entered at 8:36 a.m. PT, the trial of Case No. 3:07-cr-00732-SI, USA v. Barry Lamar Bonds began in earnest.

Bonds, the former star outfielder for the Giants and Pirates who in 2007 became baseball's all-time home run leader at the end of a 22-year Major League career, is charged with four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice. His long-awaited trial began Monday with a jury-selection process that took up most of the first day.

By the end of it, a jury of eight women and four men, along with two female alternates, was seated in Illston's courtroom, ready to begin a trial that is expected to take 3-4 weeks before the start of deliberations. "