TOLEDO (OH)
Toledo Blade
BY DAVID YONKE
BLADE RELIGION EDITOR
Gerald Robinson, the Toledo Catholic priest convicted in 2006 of the 1980 murder of a nun, was denied a new trial in a ruling Monday by Judge Gene Zmuda of Lucas County Common Pleas Court.
The 73-year-old priest is serving a 15-years-to-life sentence for killing Sister Margaret Ann Pahl on April 5 — Holy Saturday — in 1980.
His amended petition for post-conviction relief contends that police reports from 1980 that had been misfiled and discovered by chance in 2009 could have affected the 2006 trial and verdict.
Judge Zmuda rejected the argument, saying that the 136 documents did not contain anything that would have helped Robinson’s defense strategy or prove the priest’s innocence.
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