Javare Holmes
Courtesy of WCSO
The 18-year-old Ann Arbor man charged with multiple felonies for breaking into homes all over Washtenaw County had a trial date set when he appeared in court for a pretrial hearing Monday.
Javare Holmes faces a litany of charges including nine counts of first-degree home invasion and one count each of second-degree home invasion, larceny in a building, receiving and concealing stolen property worth more than $1,000 but less than $20,000 and assaulting, resisting or obstructing a police officer.
The counts are divvied up between five different cases. A jury trial date of Sept. 30 was set for four of the more recent cases. A pretrial date was set for those cases as well as one older case for Sept. 16. There was no jury trial date set for the older case.
At Monday's hearing, the prosecution and defense seemed willing to continue to talk about a resolution, presumably in the form of a plea deal, before the all cases went to trial.
Holmes rejected a plea offer from the prosecution in May. He sought new counsel after that hearing and is now represented by David Goldstein, who appeared in court with him Monday.
Holmes was charged in May 2012 with first-degree home invasion and assaulting, resisting or obstructing a police officer. He paid $2,000 to bond out of jail on that case and then missed a pretrial hearing. Police believe he committed nine more home invasions during the time frame that he was wanted on a bench warrant.
He was eventually arrested on March 9 after a search warrant was served on a home in the 1400 block of Kirtland Drive in Ann Arbor. Guitars, violins, computers, televisions, GPS units, cellphones, watches, laptops and digital cameras were recovered from the home.
On each charge of first-degree home invasion, Holmes faces a maximum of 20 years in prison. Second-degree home invasion carries a maximum of 15 years in prison. If Holmes is convicted on all counts and is given consecutive sentencing, he could face 208 years in prison.
John Counts covers cops and courts for AnnArbor.com. He can be reached at johncounts@annarbor.com or you can follow him on Twitter.