URBANA – A Champaign County jury returned a mixed set of verdicts Tuesday against a Champaign man accused in a violent domestic dispute with his estranged wife.

The jury acquitted Turance Cobb, 36, who listed an address in the 900 block of Dogwood Drive, of home invasion and driving under the influence of cannabis, but convicted him of less serious charges of criminal trespass to residence and driving under revocation.

Judge Tom Difanis set sentencing for March 18. Cobb faces penalties ranging from probation to one to three years in prison. Had he been convicted of home invasion, it would have been a mandatory prison sentence of six to 30 years.

The charges stemmed from a Nov. 28 incident at the home of his estranged wife, Tiffany Cobb, in the 100 block of West Michigan Avenue in Urbana.

Tiffany Cobb said she was upstairs sleeping with her boyfriend about 7 a.m. that Sunday when she heard a loud knock at the door. After ignoring it, she then heard a "really loud bang" that shook the house.

She and her boyfriend discovered that someone had rammed a car into the boyfriend's car in the driveway, pushing it into the closed garage door and damaging her car inside.

Opening the door, she saw broken glass and Turance Cobb outside. She then went to the kitchen to call police. When she came back to the living room, she saw an "enraged" Turance Cobb yelling at the boyfriend. She said she asked Cobb to leave but he went in the garage, picked up her son's mountain bike and began hitting her car with it.

When she tried to get him to stop, he swung the bike at her, hitting her, causing bruising and a scratch to her arm.

On cross-examination by defense attorney Tom Bruno, Tiffany Cobb said she is still not divorced from her husband because she can't afford the fee to file a court case. She said they had been living apart since April.

Urbana police officer Dave Roesch interviewed Cobb, who testified that Cobb told him he'd smoked cannabis the night before, "got a wild hair" and decided to go to his estranged wife's home. After sustaining a cut to the hand, Cobb was taken to Carle Hospital but refused to submit to chemical testing.

Bruno, who was assisted by his son Anthony Bruno, argued that Assistant State's Attorney Chris Kanis had not proven that Cobb entered his wife's home without authority or that he intentionally injured her, both elements of the home invasion offense. He also argued there was no evidence to prove that Cobb was under the influence of cannabis at the time of the event.