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Toledo Blade
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Defense attorneys for Catholic priest Gerald Robinson said they intend to appeal a Lucas County Common Pleas Court jury’s verdict finding their client guilty of the murder of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl on April 5, 1980.
“We certainly respectfully disagree with the jury’s verdict and intend to appeal,” defense attorney Alan Konop said at a press conference after the trial. “It’s been a very difficult verdict. We felt there was reasonable doubt. Obviously the jury disagreed ...That’s the way the system works.”
Mr. Konop said there were “some appealable issues,” but declined to comment further.
However, co-counsel John Thebes said one of the things defense attorneys felt should have been admissible in court was the comments made by Robinson when he was alone in the interrogation room. A tape of some of those comments was played in court, but was largely indiscernible.