OHIO Trial is set for priest charged with 1980 murder of nun

Investigators exhumed the body to look for new evidence.
TOLEDO (AP) -- A Roman Catholic priest charged with killing a nun during a ritualistic slaying in 1980 is scheduled to go on trial in February.
Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Patrick Foley on Thursday set a trial date of Feb. 22 for the Rev. Gerald Robinson. Foley said he expects it to be a firm trial date and doesn't expect any delays.
Father Robinson, 66, is charged with strangling and stabbing Sister Margaret Ann Pahl. He has pleaded innocent to aggravated murder.
Prosecutors told the judge that they have given defense lawyers all of their evidence collected so far. Those items include polygraph tests from 1980, lab reports and autopsy results.
Prosecutors are still waiting on DNA tests and hope to have that information in six weeks, said Gary Cook, an assistant county prosecutor.
Investigators exhumed and examined Sister Margaret's body in April to look for new evidence.
Reopened case
Father Robinson, long a suspect in the death of Sister Margaret, 71, was arrested April 23. Investigators have described the killing as ritualistic.
Investigators reopened the murder case in December after the county prosecutor's office received a letter, prosecutors said. They have not said who sent the letter or what it said.
The Roman Catholic bishop of Toledo has placed Father Robinson on a leave of absence, which excludes him from any public ministry.
If convicted, Father Robinson could be sentenced to life in prison. The death penalty was not in effect in Ohio at the time of the killing, so he cannot get a death sentence.