YOUNGSTOWN — The prosecution and defense in the Robert L. Moore murder retrial agreed about what can be discussed in front of the jury when the case begins next week.

Judge Maureen Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court spoke to the parties only momentarily in the courtroom Monday, regarding a prosecution motion asking that evidence not be presented at trial about a polygraph test administered to a witness.

The judge has not ruled on the motion, but the parties agreed to limits on what can be presented. No witnesses testified Monday.

The judge postponed the retrial from last Monday to next Monday so that a hearing could be held on the motion. A polygraph examiner was going to be called to testify remotely during the hearing, according to court documents, but no such testimony was taken.

Moore, 53, of Alliance is charged with murder in the 2009 disappearance and presumed murder of Glenna J. White, 16, from a Smith Township home. Moore was the last person known to have been with her.

County prosecutors asked that evidence not be admitted regarding the polygraph test taken by another man, a person who was dating Glenna’s mother at the time of her disappearance.

The man was a suspect in Glenna’s disappearance, so the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation had a BCI examiner give him a polygraph test in 2014. He was asked questions about Glenna and was believed to be deceptive in his answers.

But the type of test given normally is not admissible at trial, and prosecutors wanted it suppressed on those grounds.

Defense attorney Lou DeFabio agreed that such results typically are not admissible, but he added he was aware of at least one case in which such a test was admitted.

Moore was tried by a jury before Sweeney in June 2022 that found Moore not guilty of aggravated murder. But the jury could not reach a verdict on the charge of murder, so prosecutors chose to try Moore again.