In the meantime Michael Jackson goes FREE!
Taking teenage boys to a 40-year-old's bed is not a crime.
When is Robinson's trial?
Don't despair...he may get a jury like the one Michael Jackson had.
Interesting that Dr. Henry Lee has been consulted on this case:
Mr. Lee, who studied the autopsy and police reports, said Sister Pahl appeared to have been attacked from behind, her killer strangling her until she was unconscious. While on the floor and still breathing, she was stabbed in the face, neck, and through the altar cloth covering her upper body.
He said the assailant made a deliberate "pattern in the stab wounds," possibly resembling a cross, but declined to give further details.
"What we do is look at everything, the pattern, the marks left by the weapon,'' said Mr. Lee, who has testified in several high-profile cases, including the O.J. Simpson murder trial in 1995.
Two people recently interviewed by police said investigators were comparing the pattern of the wounds to a cross.
"They wanted to know about the shapes of older crosses used by the church in the past," said the Rev. Stephen Stanbery, a pastor in the Toledo diocese.
Local priests recently interviewed by police said investigators are trying to determine if a cross actually was placed over the altar cloth and the killer stabbed her along its outline.
Detectives also have been interviewing local clerics about a second possible weapon - a stylus, a sharp instrument used by priests to carve crosses into the Pascal candle during Holy Saturday services - that may have been used the day Sister Pahl was killed.
--Toledo Blade
Hearing requested in nun’s 1980 death
Review of priest’s statements soughtAttorneys for the Rev. Gerald Robinson have asked for a hearing in Lucas County Common Pleas Court to resolve questions about statements the priest gave to police in 1980.
The request was among the motions filed in the murder trial of Father Robinson, who is accused in the fatal stabbing death of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl on Easter weekend 1980 in a chapel at the former Mercy Hospital near downtown Toledo.
Defense attorneys who are representing the priest want to know whether police taped an interview with Father Robinson on April 18, 1980, or if they have supplemental notes, reports, or summaries of his statements.
The motion said a hearing was needed, in part, for the court to review whether Father Robinson’s constitutional rights were violated or if any irregularities occurred that would be grounds for having the case dismissed.
Judge Thomas Osowik had given attorneys until tomorrow to file motions in the case. A trial for Father Robinson, 67, is scheduled for April 17 [2006].
Sister Margaret Ann was found stabbed and strangled in the chapel’s sacristy. Father Robinson was arrested in April, 2004, after investigators reopened the case.
In response to a similar request from defense attorneys, prosecutors last month denied in a motion that the interview conducted by then-Detective Art Marx was taped.
Attorneys for Father Robinson also asked the court to suppress statements he gave to police when he was arrested at his home in 2004. In addition, they’re challenging the qualifications of certain witnesses prosecutors intend to use at trial.
A pretrial hearing in the case is scheduled for tomorrow, when Judge Osowik could make a decision on whether to hold a hearing on the motions.