Instead of facing a trial, a 41-year-old man has pleaded no-contest to three charges related to an April fire at a Eudora woman’s mobile home.

Douglas County District Judge Paula Martin on Monday morning had ruled that Donzell Quinn should face a trial on charges of arson, making a criminal threat and misdemeanor criminal damage to property.

But minutes later, after talking with his defense attorney, Michael Clarke, Quinn agreed to enter the plea instead.

Sarah Klebenstein and her 17-year-old son escaped their home on April 14 after a trash can was on fire and burned the mobile home.

Klebenstein and another witness during the preliminary hearing identified Quinn as the man who ran from the porch when the trash can caught fire.

Officers later arrested Quinn in Lawrence. Prosecutors had originally charged Quinn with a count of aggravated arson, but witnesses testified in the hearing that Klebenstein and her son escaped before the fire spread from the trash can to the home.