YOGURT SHOP SUSPECT NOT DUE STATE MONEY
(Murderpedia)
A Texas appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling blocking a man from collecting nearly $720,000 in state money intended to pay people wrongfully convicted of crimes.
Robert Springsteen was in prison for nine years, including time on death row, for the killings of four teenage girls at an Austin yogurt shop in 1991. In 2006 the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned his conviction, on the contention he received an unfair trial.
Springsteen's lawsuit to have him declared innocent was dismissed by a state district judge in 2014 and the 3rd Texas Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld that ruling.
The Austin American Statesman reports appeals court Judge Bob Pemberton wrote Springsteen can't be considered innocent because he hasn't received a full pardon based on innocence and because prosecutors haven't deemed him innocent, thus he is not entitled to state compensation.