SAN FRANCISCO — After years of speculation on what a defense team headed by Allen Ruby and Cristina Arguedas would look like at trial, the curtain has lifted.

Ruby, who has been the public face of the team, was front and center as the Barry Bonds trial got under way, delivering the opening statements and conducting unrelenting cross examinations of the government’s first three witnesses. It’s been a slow reveal for Arguedas, who tops national “best lawyer” lists and who had a hand in picking both the judge she’s before and the U.S. attorney whose office is trying the case.

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