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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal judge has scheduled a three-day trial in September for a Utah electrician charged with starting a fire at an unfinished Salt Lake City apartment building.
U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart on Thursday set a Sept. 8 trial for Dustin Bowman.
His attorneys immediately requested the trial be postponed.
Stewart hasn't ruled on that request.
Bowman has pleaded not guilty to a federal arson charge from the Feb. 9 fire.
Prosecutors say the 34-year-old admitted to investigators he started the fire by igniting cardboard and tossing it into a bathtub leaning against a wood wall.
No one was inside or injured in the nighttime fire, which caused an estimated $6 million in damage. Flames from the 40-foot-tall building could be seen for miles and drew hundreds of onlookers.
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