A jury on Monday convicted a Karns City man of most of the charges filed by state police for a March 2023 assault of a woman at a camper in Fairview Township.

The one-day trial in Butler County Common Pleas Court resulted in Joseph R. Parker, 36, being found guilty of 21 of the 28 charges.

Parker represented himself with assistance of stand-by counsel Joel Hills.

The jury of five women and seven men deliberated about two hours before finding Parker guilty of 17 felony counts of a former convict not to own a firearm, one misdemeanor count each of terroristic threats and reckless endangerment, and two counts of simple assault. He was found not guilty of felony charges of strangulation, two counts of unlawful body armor and two counts of aggravated assault; and misdemeanor charges of simpl

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