The Yogurt Shop Saga

Springsteen and Scott are free men – for now

"...Announcing her decision to dismiss all pending charges against Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott – the two men who..."

Nov. 6, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

A Forced Confession?

Jurors spent much of week three of the yogurt shop murder trial of Michael Scott watching nearly 20 hours of an exhaustive videotaped confession he gave Austin police in September 1999.

"...told him his high school friends and eventual co-defendants Robert Springsteen and Maurice Pierce blamed him for the murders...."

Sept. 6, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Yogurt Shop Case Cross-Examined

Appeals court decision may undermine yogurt shop prosecutions.

"...Mendez applies," said Jim Sawyer, trial attorney for defendant Robert Springsteen. "Because if it does apply, then they'd have..."

Feb. 1, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

What's Next?

What happens next in the yogurt shop trials?

"...Robert Springsteen's conviction really only brings an end to the..."

June 15, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Will Supremes' Ruling Scuttle Yogurt-Shop Cases?

The high court's unanimous Sixth Amendment ruling gives hope to attorneys for Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott

"...Attorneys for Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott, the two defendants convicted in..."

March 19, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Jury selection continues in Robert Springsteen's murder trial.

"...Jury selection continued this week in the trial of Robert Springsteen IV, the first of three defendants to be..."

April 27, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Scott Appeals Conviction in Yogurt Shop Case

A recent Supreme Court decision may undercut both verdicts

"...evidence portions of a "confession" made by nontestifying co-defendant Robert Springsteen. Scott's appellate attorney Ariel Payan told a three-judge..."

June 18, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

News Shorts

"...funeral home conglomerate Service Corporation International and its CEO Robert Waltrip -- and that then-Gov. George W. Bush directly..."

Sept. 7, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Yogurt Shop Saga: New Unknown DNA Evidence

The DNA of yet two more unknown males has been discovered

"...A lawyer for yogurt shop murder defendant Robert Springsteen said Dec. 31 that additional DNA testing has..."

Jan. 9, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Yogurt-Shop Murders Update

District Judge remands Robert Springsteen to Travis Co., where he'll remain in jail until retrial for murder in connection with infamous yogurt-shop killings

"...Mike Lynch signed a bench warrant this week, remanding Robert Springsteen to Travis County, where he'll remain in jail..."

June 22, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Justice Delayed for Yogurt Shop Defendant

Robert Springsteen has been waiting for 110,764,800 seconds for his appeal to be heard

"...in the case of convicted Yogurt Shop Murders defendant Robert Springsteen, it is a right that apparently isn't of..."

April 21, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Local news this week in Austin.

"...While the capital murder trial of Robert Springsteen IV -- the first of three defendants to..."

May 25, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Naked City

Prosecution Rests in Scott Case

"...capital murder case against Michael Scott, after APD Detective Robert Merrill testified to details in the confession of Scott's..."

Sept. 20, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Yogurt Shop Murder

New evidence could hobble state's murder case

"...A lawyer for yogurt shop defendant Robert Springsteen says that retested DNA evidence proves his client..."

April 18, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Fifth and Sixth Amendments violated, Scott's lawyers say

"...state announced it had hard evidence against four men: Robert Springsteen was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in..."

May 6, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

City Panel To Hear More on Yogurt Shop Murders

Former investigator takes issues with PSC member's comments

"...suspects identified and two of them, Michael Scott and Robert Springsteen, ultimately tried and convicted – came to the..."

May 25, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

P.I.'S Case Casts (Another) Cloud Over Yogurt Shop Probe

Private investigator Louis Akin alleges that police and prosecutors busted him on false charges to block defense efforts in the yogurt-shop case.

"...second yogurt shop defendant to face trial. (The first, Robert Springsteen IV, was convicted and sentenced to death in..."

Feb. 14, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Scott Locked Down

Michael Scott is convicted in the second yogurt shop murder trial.

"...files. Detectives subsequently obtained confessions from both Scott and Robert Springsteen IV, the first to stand trial. He was..."

Sept. 27, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Naked City

The Travis County District Attorney's office promised Bernie Durst immunity, but is apparently reneging.

"...after Durst was sworn in by Assistant District Attorney Robert Smith last September, he told the grand jury that..."

Aug. 3, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Yogurt Shop Murder-Conviction Update

Court of Criminal Appeals denies request by Travis Co. district attorney's office to reconsider its ruling earlier this year, overturning capital-murder conviction of Robert Springsteen, sentenced to die in connection with yogurt shop murders case

"...ruling earlier this year, overturning the capital-murder conviction of Robert Springsteen, who was sentenced to die in connection with..."

Oct. 6, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Yogurt Shop Murder Defendants Set Free

Prosecution not ready for trial

"...County District Judge Mike Lynch ruled Wed­nesday morning that Robert Springsteen and co-defendant Michael Scott will be released from..."

June 26, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Jurors spent week four in the capital murder trial of Yogurt Shop Murders defendant Michael Scott considering DNA evidence and testimony from several of Scott's high school friends.

"...she told the court during the trial of co-defendant Robert Springsteen, convicted and sentenced to death last summer...."

Sept. 13, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Thunder Road

SXSW award winner is a captivating study of a mess of a man

"...Sixty years after Robert Mitchum ran moonshine down Thunder Road in the durable..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Yogurt Shop

Defendants in yogurt shop murder may get an opportunity to bond out of custody while awaiting second trial

"...whether he'll entertain defense motions seeking the release of Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott on bond. Lynch's decision may..."

Jan. 16, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Yogurt Shop DNA

After months of testing, the state knows a lot about who doesn't match the new DNA evidence

"...time of the crime, were responsible for the murders: Robert Springsteen, Michael Scott, Forrest Welborn, and Maurice Pierce (whom..."

Sept. 26, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Long Wait for Yogurt Shop Murders DNA

New DNA testing could exonerate defendants, lawyers say – if only they could see those test results.

"...men awaiting retrial in the case, Scott and co-defendant Robert Spring­steen, are actually innocent...."

June 20, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Yogurt Shop Goes to CCA

"...Criminal Appeals heard oral arguments in the appeal of Robert Springsteen, the first of two defendants convicted for the..."

May 30, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Never-Ending Timeline

A chronology of events in the yogurt shop murder case

"...to participating in the yogurt shop murders along with Springsteen, Pierce, and Welborn...."

July 17, 2009 News Feature

Más Denero

"...for representing Roy Rose, the West Virginian friend of Robert Springsteen. This past spring, the state subpoenaed Rose to..."

Dec. 21, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Questions Persist About Yogurt Shop Murders

Pretrial suspended in Michael Scott yogurt shop murder trial

"...The prosecutor, Assistant District Attorney Robert Smith, objected -- primarily because Díaz was initially not..."

Sept. 28, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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