TOLEDO (OH)
Toledo Blade
By DAVID YONKE
BLADE RELIGION EDITOR
After calling 11 witnesses in two days, the defense rested today in the murder trial of the Rev. Gerald Robinson.
Closing arguments are set for Wednesday morning, after which the jury will begin deliberations in the murder trial of the priest, accused of killing Sister Margaret Ann Pahl on April 5, 1980 — Holy Saturday. She was strangled, then stabbed 31 times in the sacristy of Mercy Hospital.
The prosecution plans to introduce one rebuttal witness, strictly for procedural reasons, and Judge Thomas Osowik said that testimony will be “extraordinarily brief.”
The trial began April 21 in Lucas County Common Pleas Court, with the prosecution calling 31 witnesses to the stand.