Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> Grits for Breakfast

Criminal Law

: Grits for Breakfast

Recording full interrogations would have saved a lot of grief in Austin's Yogurt Shop case

It's been 17 years since the infamous Yogurt Shop murders rocked the Texas capital, and as time passes it's becoming more difficult to determine where investigators went wrong in building their case against Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott.But go wrong they did.A combination of coerced confessions and new DNA evidence appear to be causing their case to crumble. The Austin Statesman's Steven Kreytak reports ("Yogurt defense lawyer lashes out at prosecutors," June 12):A lawyer for Robert Springsteen, facing retrial in the 1991 Austin yogurt shop slayings of four teenage girls, chided prosecutors Wednesday for failing to disprove his contention that DNA evidence disclosed this year exonerates his client. Joe James Sawyer spoke outside court after an otherwise uneventful pretrial hearing in the case of Springsteen's co-defendant, Michael Scott, whose lawyers say also is cleared by the DNA evidence...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 12, 2008 (boomark / email).