New Delhi, Feb. 20 -- Ending their more than three-decade-long ordeal, a court in Austin, Texas, on Thursday cleared the names of four men, who were wrongly accused of murder when they were teenagers. District Judge Dayna Blazey cleared the names of Michael Scott, Forrest Welborn, Robert Springsteen, and Maurice Pierce, saying, "You are innocent," much to the relief of two of them who were present in the courtroom on Thursday.

Judge Blazey called her order "an obligation to the rule of law and the obligation to the dignity of the individual."

The four men were accused of the 1991 Austin yogurt shop murders, where four teenage girls were shot dead inside the 'I Can't Believe It's Yogurt!' outlet by an unknown gunman on the night of Decem...