photo by: Dylan Lysen/Lawrence Journal-World

Michael A. Hormell, right, speaks to Judge Amy Hanley during a sentencing hearing in Douglas County District Court on Wednesday, June 30, 2021. His defense attorney, Shaye Downing, is pictured at left.

A Lawrence man recently sentenced to 18 years in prison for a violent crime declined a plea deal on Wednesday that would have resolved all of his criminal cases.

Michael A. Hormell, 21, and his attorney, Shaye Downing, were pursuing a “global” agreement with the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office for his four remaining criminal cases. But a deal was not reached on Wednesday, and the court scheduled Hormell’s two pending felony cases for jury trials in early 2022, the DA’s office said in an email to the Journal-World. The other two pending cases are for misdemeanor charges, according to court records.

As the Journal-World previously reported, Hormell is facing a charge of criminal discharge of a firearm for allegedly shooting a shotgun at a home in the 700 block of Arkansas Street on Jan. 6, 2018. That trial is scheduled for Jan. 31, 2022.

He is also facing charges of aggravated robbery and criminal possession of a firearm for an alleged armed robbery in April 2020. That trial is scheduled for March 28, 2022.

Hormell was scheduled to face trials for those cases this summer, but the court recently canceled them while he and his counsel continued to negotiate the plea agreement. The details of the proposed plea agreement were not provided to the Journal-World. Jill Jess, a spokeswoman for the DA’s office, said the agreement was not presented in court.

Hormell was recently sentenced to 18 years in prison for a conviction of aggravated robbery and attempted voluntary manslaughter, the Journal-World previously reported.

According to the police affidavit in that case, Hormell and his then-girlfriend, Ardyn D. Pannell, set up a drug buy with plans to rob the seller, another teen. However, the teen fought back and Hormell shot him in the chest.

At that sentencing, the judge cited Hormell’s “pattern of gun violence.”

Hormell was also previously convicted and sentenced to time served in a separate case in which a jury on Aug. 26, 2019, found him guilty of firing into a home in the 400 block of North Street on Jan. 24, 2018. Five adults and two children were inside, but nobody was injured, the Journal-World reported.