![]() ![]() "We are reviewing the opinion and the issues it presents," he said in a written statement. Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle declined to comment on what prosecutors will do next. The families of the victims could not be reached for comment Wednesday. "This is going to be tough on the parents to have to live through all this again." John Jones, one of the first officers to arrive at the yogurt shop that night. "Here we go again," said former Austin police Sgt. ![]() In a sharply divided decision that continues the tortuous legal saga of one of Austin's most horrible crimes, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that a second suspect's confession was improperly used against Springsteen during the trial and sent the case back to a Travis County court. The state's highest criminal appeals court Wednesday threw out the capital murder conviction of Robert Burns Springsteen IV, who was sent to death row five years ago for killing one of the four teenage girls murdered at a North Austin yogurt shop in 1991. Editor's note: This story originally published May 25, 2009. ![]()
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