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.