Auburn Plainsman Reporter Claims To Get Confession From Harvey Updyke, Becomes Witness In Trial

Well, yesterday, a reporter from the student newspaper The Auburn Plainsman, Andrew Yawn, approached Updyke outside the courtroom after a round of jury selection, and claims that the defendant spoke freely about the incident. “Did I do it? Yes.” Yawn also quotes Updyke as saying, ““They’re going to find me guilty… it’s a done deal. I don’t think I’m going to get a fair trial.”

Updyke’s attorney immediately came out and denied that his client made those statements, but the paper is standing behind them. Predictably, that student reporter has been served with a subpoena as a witness, has been instructed that he can no longer cover the case, and a gag order has been placed on all public statements by everyone except the attorneys.

[photo via Opelika-Auburn News]