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Sheriff: No change in procedures after suspect kills self

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FILE - This undated photo file provided by the Mahoning County Sheriff\'s Office in Youngstown, Ohio, shows Robert Seman Jr., charged with setting a fire that killed a 10-year-old girl he was accused of raping and her grandparents. Seman killed himself Monday, April 10, 2017, the day before a scheduled trial in his potential death penalty case. (Mahoning County Sheriff\'s Office via AP)

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – A northeast Ohio sheriff says his office isn’t changing its prisoner transport procedures after a suspect being led from a Youngstown courtroom jumped to his death from a fourth-floor courthouse balcony.

Mahoning (muh-HOH’-ning) County Sheriff Jerry Greene tells Cleveland.com (http://bit.ly/2pdXjzw ) that the defendant was handled differently and not shackled at the time because of a court order that deviated from what deputies usually do with prisoners headed to and from courtrooms.

A defence attorney had argued that seeing 48-year-old Robert Seman Jr. in jail clothes or handcuffs could improperly influence jurors.

Seman killed himself Monday, the day before a scheduled trial in his potential death penalty case. He was accused of raping a 10-year-old girl and setting a fire that killed her and two grandparents shortly before the scheduled rape trial.

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Information from: cleveland.com, http://www.cleveland.com

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