Adrian Peterson is committed to fighting child abuse charges and the Minnesota Vikings running back will not consider a guilty plea when he appears in Montgomery County (Texas) court Wednesday morning.

A spokesperson for Peterson’s attorney Rusty Hardin, Mary Flood, told ESPN.com in an email Tuesday that Peterson will fight charges of reckless or negligent injury to a child, stemming from an incident where he used a switch to discipline his son during a visit to his home in Texas earlier this year.

Speculation that Peterson would seek a plea deal to expedite his return from the commissioner’s exempt list — which pays Peterson his salary of $11.75 million this season but makes him ineligible to play or practice — but Hardin has been consistent in stating Peterson does not want a deal.

“If the court asks for a plea tomorrow (and we do expect that to happen), it will very definitely be NOT guilty,” Flood wrote in an email to ESPN.com on Tuesday. “We hope that a trial date is also discussed but don’t yet know how the court’s docket is looking.”

There is no trial date set, nor is there a certainty that the defense will know the timeframe for a trial beginning at the initial court session on Wednesday.

Hardin is likely faced with proving Peterson did not violate Texas’ corporal punishment law while disciplining his son. If convicted, Peterson faces a minimum of six months in state prison and potential NFL discipline.

Text messages and police records show Peterson was cooperative in the investigation and did not deny using the switch or causing bodily harm in doing so. However, Peterson denied ill intent.

Judge Kelly Case and the district attorney in Montgomery County could choose to set a date for the trial, but previously said the typical period between the time charges are filed and the start of a trial is at least nine months.

“I hope we learn more tomorrow,” Flood said, “but it’s possible that we won’t get a date tomorrow and we’ll just get the beginnings of discussions about a date.”

In a statement issued Sept. 15, Peterson said, “I never ever intended to harm my son. I will say the same thing once I have my day in court.”