As my Toledo-area contact said, "This will fit in well with Da Vinci mania"
One of the biggest criminal cases in Toledo history had been scheduled to be shoehorned into one of the smallest courtrooms in the city until a judge reconsidered yesterday.
Lucas County Common Pleas Court Judge Thomas Osowik asserted yesterday morning that the Rev. Gerald Robinson’s murder trial would begin Monday in his 30-seat courtroom.
“This is where we do business,” Judge Osowik told media representatives during a meeting to discuss the logistics of covering the trial, which will be broadcast gavel-to-gavel on Court TV.
By early afternoon, however, with local and national news representatives maneuvering for the 10 courtroom seats allotted for media, and attorneys complaining about a lack of space for charts, boards, projectors, and other courtroom props, Judge Osowik relented and moved the trial to a larger room around the corner.
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