Judge Issues Summons for Defendant

By D.C. Witness Staff - July 24, 2020
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On July 24, a DC Superior Court judge issued a judicial summons for a defendant who has been a loss of contact since his release in April.

Corey Holmes, 30, was charged with GPS tampering in April for a nearly year-old incident in which the battery on his court-ordered GPS device was dead for nine days in June of 2019. At the time, Holmes was on parole for a prior guilty plea to attempted second-degree burglary from 2012. 

During the July 24 proceedings, Linden Fry, Holmes’ attorney, argued that it was possible his client was not aware of his responsibility to appear in court for this particular case. Holmes’ parole ended on April 30, six days after he was released pretrial on his GPS tampering charge. 

Fry argued that, because Holmes’ parole had ended, he may have thought that this charge, which stemmed from that parole, had ended, too.

However, the prosecution requested that Judge Danya Dason issue a bench warrant for Holmes’ arrest. The prosecutor said that regardless of what Holmes understands, he was issued conditions to come into contact with pretrial services when he was charged with GPS tampering in April. 

Holmes is a loss of contact, he said.

In addition to the summons, Judge Dayson also set an earlier date to address his absence of contact. 

Holmes is scheduled to appear in court on Aug. 24.