Article published May 25, 2004
Murder trial of priest unlikely to occur in '04
Gary Cook, an assistant Lucas County prosecutor, says it's unlikely a Roman Catholic priest indicted for the 1980 aggravated murder of a nun will stand trial before the end of the year.
Before a pretrial hearing in Lucas County Common Pleas Court yesterday, prosecutors gave the defense team for the Rev. Gerald Robinson 107 pages of documents and a videotaped interview with the priest. Judge Patrick Foley set another hearing for July 13. The judge said a trial date might be set then.
Mr. Cook said afterward he doesn't know when the trial will start, but it might be difficult to begin it before year's end.
Father Robinson was arrested in April after prosecutors re-opened the 24-year-old murder case of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl, 71, who was found dead April 5, 1980, in the sacristy of a chapel at the former Mercy Hospital. She had been strangled, her body covered with a cloth, and then stabbed repeatedly.
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