Toledo Blade
May 3, 2006
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The murder trial of the Rev. Gerald Robinson, delayed yesterday because of scheduling problems with out-of-state witnesses, will be pushed back one more day for the same reason, Lucas County Common Pleas Court officials said yesterday.
The prosecution said it expected some of its witnesses to be on the stand longer, and it was difficult at the start of the trial to predict exactly when to schedule each witness. There is a strategy to the sequence in which witnesses are called, and Judge Thomas Osowik agreed to delay the trial rather than force the state to bring in witnesses out of its preferred orrder, Dean Mandros, an assistant county prosecutor, said yesterday.
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| Rev. Gerald Robinson |
The jury trial, believed to be the first of a Roman Catholic priest accused of killing a Roman Catholic nun, began April 21 and is expected to last three to four weeks. The prosecution has called 22 witnesses so far and said initially it would bring in 30 to 40.
After the state is finished, the defense will begin its presentation. Father Robinson's attorneys said they plan to call eight to 10 witnesses.
Father Robinson, 68, is charged with murder in the April, 5, 1980, slaying of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl at Mercy Hospital. If convicted, he faces the possibility of life in prison.
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