Barry Bonds’ trainer ordered to court

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Barry Bonds’ former personal trainer, Greg Anderson, has been ordered to appear Wednesday before the federal judge who will preside over the slugger’s perjury trial, scheduled to start March 2. The judge wants to determine whether or not Anderson will testify at the trial.

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco issued the order this morning.

Anderson, who allegedly obtained designer steroids for Bonds through the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, has refused to provide detailed statements about what Bonds knew regarding the substances Anderson purportedly provided him. Anderson has served more than 15 months behind bars because of his stance, and federal prosecutors are urging Illston to send the trainer to prison again if he declines to testify again.

Illston last week tossed from trial three positive steroid tests by Bonds in 2000 and 2001 before his record-breaking 73-homer season of 2001, ruling that, without Anderson’s testimony, those results were inadmissible.

Bonds is charged with lying to a federal grand jury in December 2003, when he testified that he never knowingly took steroids and that he believed the substances he was using were flaxseed oil and an arthritic balm.

Anderson’s attorney, Mark Geragos, has told The Times repeatedly that Anderson will not testify at Bonds’ trial.

Anderson is due in court at 10 a.m. Wednesday. U.S. marshals will serve the order to Anderson and provide him transportation to court ‘if required,’ Illston wrote.

-- Lance Pugmire