Attorneys meeting to set Seman trial dates

YOUNGSTOWN — Attorneys discussed trial dates and other issues today in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court in the case of Robert Seman, who can receive the death penalty if convicted of the deaths of a 10-year-year-old girl and her grandparents in an arson.

Seman, 46, of West Calla Road, faces 10 counts of aggravated murder for the deaths of Corinne Gump, 10, and her grandparents, William and Judith Schmidt, inside their Powers Way home early March 30 in a fire.

Prosecutors say Seman set the fire because he was to go on trial the day of the fire on charges of raping Gump, charges which carry a term of life in prison if he was convicted.

The rape counts still stand. Seman is also charged with bribery for trying to get his ex-wife to change her story to police the weekend before the trial, prosecutors said.