Gerald Robinson, the Roman Catholic priest convicted of killing a nun inside an Ohio hospital chapel a day before Easter in 1980, won’t get a new trial.

A judge has ruled that police reports discovered after the priest’s trial didn’t contain any new information that would have changed the outcome.

The Rev. Gerald Robinson has never spoken publicly about the day in 1980 that Sister Margaret Ann Pahl was murdered in the chapel of Toledo’s Mercy Hospital.

Church historians believe his conviction is the first U.S. case of a priest being sent to prison for killing a nun.

Now, after three years in prison, the 71-year-old priest tells about his relationship with the victim, the trial, the intense scrutiny of his case and his relationship with God.

Despite defense contentions that Toledo Catholic priest Gerald Robinson did not receive a fair trial because too much time had passed when he was convicted in 2006 for the 1980 murder of a nun, the Ohio Supreme Court yesterday said it would not consider his appeal.

Robinson, 70, is serving a 15-year-to-life prison sentence in Hocking Correctional Facility in Nelsonville, Ohio. He was arrested by Lucas County cold-case investigators in April, 2004, and convicted in May, 2006, for the murder of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl.

In a decision which will have far reaching effects in clergy abuse cases and eerily issued just days before Halloween, the Sixth District Court of Appeals in Ohio has reinstated a 2005 lawsuit involving alleged satanic rituals against a Toledo priest who was convicted last year in the 1980 murder of a nun.

A Lucas County Common Pleas Court ruling throwing out the civil lawsuit of a woman who accused Gerald Robinson of torturing and raping her in a satanic ritual when she was a child will be appealed, an attorney in the case said yesterday.

The civil lawsuit filed against Gerald Robinson that accused him and others of repeatedly torturing and raping a young girl in ritual abuse ceremonies at a North Toledo church was dismissed yesterday.

A Toledo woman who sued Gerald Robinson in April, 2005, accusing the Roman Catholic priest of torturing and raping her in satanic rituals when she was a child, has filed a motion claiming the statute of limitations did not start ticking until she knew her abuser’s identity.

Civil lawsuit accuses cleric of rape and torture from '68 to '75

Prosecutor says priest's murder of nun had cult hallmarks

Defense attorneys for Catholic priest Gerald Robinson said they intend to appeal a Lucas County Common Pleas Court jury’s verdict finding their client guilty of the murder of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl on April 5, 1980.

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - A priest was convicted Thursday of stabbing a Roman Catholic nun to death as she prepared for Easter services at a hospital 26 years ago, a murder prosecutors say was steeped in religious ritual.

The Rev. Gerald Robinson's defense rested yesterday after calling 11 witnesses in two days, probing police and forensic experts to build its case that there is insufficient evidence to convict the priest of murder.

Accused priest's defense team opens its case

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Workers who say they saw a priest near a hospital chapel within an hour before a nun was found dead inside have given inconsistent information to investigators, detectives testified Friday as the priest’s defense started in his murder trial.

TOLEDO, Ohio — A Catholic priest standing trial for the murder of a nun 26 years ago got a prescription for Valium the day of the brutal slaying in a hospital chapel, a retired detective testified Friday.