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The city of Austin will pay $35 million to three men and the family of a fourth who were wrongly accused of the 1991 rape and murder of four teenage girls at a yogurt shop<\/a>, a case that initially sent one of the men to death row and another to life in prison, under a tentative settlement reached Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Robert Springsteen, Michael Scott, Forrest Welborn and Maurice Pierce had all insisted they were innocent of one of the city’s most notorious crimes. They were finally declared innocent<\/a> by a judge in February after investigators determined the crime was committed by a suspect who died in 1999.<\/p>\n

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