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	Priest Faces Lesser Charge of Murder in Nun's Death Associated Press, carried in The Plain Dealer [Cleveland OH] January 5, 2006 http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/113645389479550.xml&coll=2 Toledo - Prosecutors who have accused a priest of stabbing a nun to death in 1980 now say the killing was not premeditated, according to a court filing. A motion filed in Lucas County Court dropped the words "with prior calculation and design" from a grand jury's indictment. The filing also would reduce the original aggravated murder charge to murder. The Rev. Gerald Robinson is accused of strangling and stabbing Sister Margaret Ann Pahl in a 1980 Easter weekend killing that investigators have described as ritualistic. The priest and the nun worked together at a hospital. Robinson, 67, was an initial suspect in the killing, but he was not arrested until April 2004, after police reopened the case. He is free on bond.
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