Three men convicted in the nightmarish slayings of three Cub Scouts went free Friday after being permitted to plead guilty to murder in exchange for time served, nearly two decades after they were sent to prison in a case that raised questions about DNA and witnesses and attracted support from celebrities like Johnny Depp and Eddie Vedder.

Just five days after a federal jury handed up a verdict in favor of a Boy Scouts chapter in a suit against Philadelphia, a potential game-changer emerged, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court. Lawyers for the city argue that the local verdict cannot stand because the Scouts’ theory was rejected by the Court in Christian Legal Society Chapter of University of California v

A federal jury on Wednesday declared that the city of Philadelphia had violated the First Amendment rights of the local chapter of the Boy Scouts of America by moving to evict it from its city-owned headquarters if it refused to repudiate the anti-gay policies of the Scouts’ national parent group. However, the jury rejected the Scouts’ claim that the city had engaged in “viewpoint” discrimination and also rejected an Equal Protection claim by finding that the city had a rational basis for its actions.