Tuesday, May 27, 5:30 PM, Travis Co. Courthouse, Guadalupe between 10th and 11th Streets

TRAVIS COUNTY HAS THE WRONG MEN IN THE YOGURT SHOP CASE. TELL THEM: DROP ALL THE CHARGES NOW !

Come to a press conference and protest with Jeannine Scott (wife of Michael Scott) and Shujaa Graham (exonerated death row prisoner).

Several years ago, four teenage girls were murdered in an Austin area yogurt shop. Eight years and dozens of false confessions later, four young men were indicted for the murders. With no physical evidence, Robert Springsteen was sent to death row and Michael Scott given life. (The two other men were not even taken to trial.) The basis of the convictions were “confessions” from Mike and Robert, which have been were coerced. It is because of the prosecution’s misuse of the “confessions” that both men had their convictions thrown out and were granted new trials. Mike’s trial was slated to begin in May, but has been postponed indefinitely while new DNA testing is done on evidence from the crime scene, some of which has already been proven not to match any of the accused men.

See a good article summarizing recent developments in the case.

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