A Lynn man with a criminal record boasting nearly 200 charges was convicted of breaking into a Jamaica Plain home and raping a woman inside in 2022.

Washington Pearson, 56, of Lynn, represented himself in the case at Suffolk Superior Court where a jury convicted him Friday of armed assault in a dwelling, armed robbery, assault with intent to rape, indecent assault & battery, two counts of strangulation, larceny from a building and armed breaking & entering during the daytime putting a person in fear. Judge Rosemary Connolly scheduled his sentencing for Tuesday.

“This was an extraordinarily frightening experience for the victim, and she showed great courage to come forward and tell jurors what happened in her apartment that day,” Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden said in a statement following the conviction. “Her words, along with the testimony of other witnesses and the diligent work of investigators, helped lead the jury to their verdict.”

Pearson was living in a residential reentry program in the Fenway when on Oct. 24, 2022, after having been released from prison that July on habitual offender convictions, he broke into an apartment on the Arborway in Jamaica Plain with a screwdriver and found one of the two women who lived there on her couch in the living room, according to the DA’s office.

Pearson strangled the woman, prosecutors say, and when she awoke she found herself naked from the waist down and Pearson still there. Pearson strangled her again and stole her phone and jewelry before leaving the apartment and going on the lam. U.S. Marshals captured him in Virginia the next month.