180 excused from Seman trial jury pool

YOUNGSTOWN — About 180 jurors today were excused in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court from having to serve in the capital murder case of Robert Seman case.

The jurors were excused for a variety of reasons ranging from financial hardship to health and age.

About 220 jurors remain in the pool and will be reporting Feb. 3 for jury orientation in the case before Judge Maureen Sweeney.

Seman, 48, of Green, could face the death penalty if convicted of the deaths of Corinne Gump, 10 and her grandparents, William and Judith Schmidt, during a March 30, 2015, arson at their Powers Way home just hours before Seman was to go on trial on charges he raped Gump that carry a possible life sentence.