Feb 14, 2007 By The 2 min read

A Hiller man was acquitted of possession with intent to deliver and delivery of crack cocaine to an undercover informant in one of several trials heard last week during Fayette County’s criminal court week. Jurors could not decide if Joseph Samol, 26, possessed the crack, which he was charged with selling in 2004. A mistrial was declared on that charge, and prosecutors can retry Samol on possession of a controlled substance.

Samol was a juror in on a 2004 drug case that ended in mistrial after he changed his verdict of guilty while jurors were being polled about their decision. Unbeknownst to prosecutors at the time, Samol himself was being investigated for selling drugs.

Police later arrested him and alleged he sold half of an ounce of cocaine to an undercover informant.

The trial was held before Judge Ralph C. Warman.

Another panel of jurors deliberated just minutes before convicting David Tyrone Henry, an inmate at the State Correctional Institution at Fayette in Luzerne Township, of aggravated assault by a prisoner.

Currently in jail for three life terms for three murders, Henry threw a cup of feces, semen, urine and hot water at two guards at the state prison on Dec. 6, 2005.

During the trial, Henry, 43, wore a hooded mesh mask to stop him from acting out in the courtroom and confessed to throwing the matter and guards as he testified on his own behalf.

In another case, Anthony Von Robinson, 38, of Brownsville was acquitted of theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property and criminal conspiracy to commit both. The charges related to a Sept. 14, 2005, alleged theft in Brownsville.

President Judge Conrad B. Capuzzi granted a judgment of acquittal in the receiving stolen property and theft by deception case brought against Christopher Eugene Mills, 33, of Uniontown. The case dealt with allegations of theft on April 26, 2005, in the city.