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Nicole Khoury was 28 years old when the Father Gerald Robinson trial began, young enough to call herself “third chair” without disrespecting herself and experienced enough to know that she had stepped into something enormous. She had already built the outlines of the life Toledo would come to know well: University of Toledo law school graduate, public defender, criminal defense attorney, musician.
Long before she took the bench as a Toledo Municipal Court judge, long before she built Project iAm and Acoustics for Autism into a signature cause, Khoury sat in the middle of one of the city’s most unusual murder cases, helping defend a priest accused of killing a nun…