The lawyers in the Yogurt Shop murder case spent hours meeting Tuesday in the confines of a judge's chambers, apparently to agree to continue to disagree on how to consider new evidence in the case.
Meanwhile, Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott will remain in jail at least another month, before Judge Mike Lynch will consider whether the new evidence warrants freeing both men on bond pending their new trial.
Attorneys for Springsteen and Scott argue new DNA evidence in the case exonerates their clients, and the district attorney's office has buried its head in the sand.
"It's quite clear now that there's DNA on vaginal swabs of three of the four girls who were murdered," Defense Attorney Joe James Sawyer said. "And it's clear the DNA, that's male DNA, did not come back to any of the accused. It means absolutely nothing to the state."
Springsteen and Scott were convicted in connection with the killings of four teenage girls in the I Can't Believe It's Yogurt in North Austin in 1991.
Defense attorneys said they will request a hearing within 45 days asking Judge Lynch to free their clients on bond, pending their new trials.
