OHIO
Toledo Blade
BY JENNIFER FEEHAN
BLADE STAFF WRITER
Nearly seven years after he went to prison for the 1980 murder of a nun, Gerald Robinson’s fight to have his conviction overturned continues to move through the courts.
In the latest ruling, the Ohio 6th District Court of Appeals rejected the Toledo priest’s claims that prosecutors withheld key documents from his defense attorneys and that his defense attorneys failed to focus on a known serial killer as the more likely suspect in the death of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl. The court affirmed the April, 2011, finding of Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Gene Zmuda, who denied Robinson’s petition for postconviction relief.
Richard Kerger, attorney for Robinson, said Wednesday that the fight for a new trial will not end with this decision.
“We will be appealing the decision to the Ohio Supreme Court and doing so in the next week or two,” he said.
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