WINDHAM – Attorneys for Donato Corsetti, the Windham man accused of setting fire to an apartment building in Windham Center in December, met with the Cumberland County District Attorney’s office Thursday, May 9, for a dispositional conference.

According to Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Ackerman, no plea deals or court dates were set at the meeting and with more evidence being compiled, lawyers agreed to a second dispositional conference in late June, she said.

The routine pre-trial meetings among prosecutors, a judge, and defendants are held to reach out-of-court arrangements and to allow defendants to learn of evidence collected. In Corsetti’s case, Ackerman said, investigators are still in the process of collecting and compiling evidence, necessitating a second dispositional conference.

At Thursday’s initial conference, Corsetti, his lawyers from the Portland-based Hirshon Law Group and county prosecutors met with Cumberland County Unified Court judge Joyce Wheeler.

Ackerman said if no plea deal is reached as a result of the pre-trial hearings, jury selection and a trial could occur sometime in August.

“Both sides will evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of their case and decide where things might be going in terms of a plea or trial or whatever, like in any case. But the issue with discovery, you can’t get a great handle on, necessarily, the strengths and weaknesses if you don’t have all the evidence,” Ackerman said.