By Gina Tabonares
Variety News Staff

LUIS Seagraves and his uncle Arthur Seagraves were back in the Superior Court yesterday for a criminal trial setting and was ordered to return on June 15 for a pre-trial conference.
The jury selection will begin on June 18 in the courtroom of Judge Michael Bordallo.
Luis and Arthur Seagraves are suspects in the 1996 murder of Michelle Limtiaco.
During yesterday’s hearing, the defense lawyers, David Lujan and Randall Cunliffe, indicated their plan to file a motion.
Judge Bordallo gave them until March 30 to file their motion while the government lawyer, Deputy Attorney General Clyde Lemons, was given until April 13 to file their opposition. The defense could response to the opposition until April 20.
The motion hearing is set for April 30 at 1:30 pm.
Luis and Arthur Seagraves are both facing charges of first-degree felony for conspiracy to commit aggravated murder, aggravated murder with a special allegation of possession and use of a deadly weapon, a knife, in the commission of a felony, and first-degree robbery.
They were put under house arrest after the court allowed Luis Seagraves, 27, to post a property bond worth $400,000, while Arthur Seagraves, 59, was released on his own personal recognizance with a $100,000 unsecured bond.
The latest grand jury indictment stated that the two Seagraves and other unnamed individuals conspired to commit the aggravated murder on July 10, 1996 and intentionally caused the death of Limtiaco by stabbing her with a knife.
The suspects allegedly took the victim’s car, handbag and other miscellaneous personal property on the same date.
Warrants were issued against the defendants in August 2006 but the young Seagraves was arrested only on Feb. 4 when he was caught by Nicaraguan police.
The young Seagraves, who has been indicted three times in the same case, reportedly went off island as soon as his second indictment was dismissed in February 2006.
He was first charged with his uncle Arthur Seagraves and Vern Agualo in 1996, but the prosecution did not move forward due to insufficient evidence.
In 2003, he was arrested and brought back from California after the case against him was revived.
The murder case was scheduled for trial in March last year, but the Attorney General’s Office asked for dismissal of the case after receiving more information that would help in the prosecution of the case.
The AGO re-indicted the young Seagraves, along with his uncle and Mario Leon Guerrero, but a grand jury true bill was only returned against the two Seagraves.