SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Bonds renewed his claims of innocence Friday, pleading not guilty to 15 federal charges of lying to a grand jury about his performance-enhancing drug use.

At a second hearing Friday, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ordered Bonds to stand trial beginning on March 2, 2009.

Bonds entered the same plea in December after being originally indicted last year. A judge later ordered prosecutors to rewrite the slugger's indictment to fix legal infirmities. The new indictment includes no new allegations.

He was re-arraigned Friday on 15 felony counts of lying under oath. Prosecutors say he lied when he told a grand jury investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative in 2003 that he never knowingly took steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs.

Bonds arrived shortly before his 9:30 a.m. hearing to a much smaller and subdued crowd that greeted his first federal court appearance Dec. 17.

The home run king, dressed in a black suit, stepped out of a black SUV with his attorney and a couple bodyguards and entered the courthouse through a back entrance without addressing reporters.

Bonds said nothing during the five-minute arraignment. His attorney Allen Ruby pleaded not guilty on the slugger's behalf, and Bonds embraced his aunt Rosie Kreidler after the hearing.

"The reason that I am here is because his father is deceased," said Kreidler, sister to Bonds' father Bobby Bonds. "This is such a tremendous blow to his family. It is so much on us. He's a great person. We are all praying for him."