The man accused of vehicular homicide in the crash that killed an on-duty Golden Police Department officer has yet to take a plea deal, despite lawyers’ expectations.

Forty-three-year-old Stephen Geer, currently out on a $250,000 bond, stood before First Judicial District Judge Russell Klein on Tuesday for a pre-trial conference after three pushed back arraignments, plea deal negotiations and a not-guilty plea last month.

Geer is set for another pre-trial conference on Oct. 13 where he could still enter a plea deal with the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office. If not, he will proceed to seven-day trial scheduled for Jan. 26. 

Geer pleaded not guilty to a bevy of charges filed against him on Aug. 4, including:

• One count of vehicular homicide, a class 3 felony
• Two counts of vehicular assault, a class 4 felony
• One count of third-degree assault, a misdemeanor
• One count of driving under the influence, a misdemeanor

At the previous arraignment, Geer’s lawyer, Megan Downing, said she had just received the plea deal offer from the district attorney’s office and was still taking time to discuss with the victims. Downing also claimed Geer was planning on coming to a resolution without a jury trial.

No details about the proposed agreement were revealed. 

As of now, the trial date is set and no agreement has been settled upon.

The Denver Gazette reached out to the defense attorneys regarding the possibility of a deal, but did not hear back by the time of this report.

Geer was officially charged by the district attorney’s office on Nov. 14 in connection to the Nov. 6 crash.

Geer, a former Colorado School of Mines mechanical engineering professor,  allegedly crashed into a vehicle parked at another crash on Highway 58 around 5 p.m., pushing the parked vehicle into two officers and killing 33-year-old Ofc. Evan Dunn — the first on-duty death of an officer in the history of the department.

Dunn and another officer, Bethany Grusing, were pinned under the vehicle during the crash.

Dunn died on impact and Grusing sustained a cheekbone injury. The two drivers who were involved in the earlier crash were also injured. Both were thrown by the impact and one sustained a skull fracture and brain bleed, according to arrest documents.

Grusing has since returned to work with the department. 

Geer refused a blood and breathalyzer test at the scene, prosecutor Alexa Visscher said at a previous hearing, but Geer’s blood alcohol concentration came back at a .168 at the hospital, according to prosecutor Brian Domingues at another hearing.

Domingues said there was there was evidence to show five transactions at Denver and Golden liquor stores on the day of the crash.