In 1987, Jean Casse, a French tourist, was fatally mugged in Times Square. Eric Smokes, 19, and David Warren, 16, were arrested for Casse's murder and convicted despite maintaining their innocence.

MANHATTAN, New York -- A Manhattan judge on Thursday vacated the murder convictions of two childhood friends accused of killing a French tourist on New Year's Day 1987. Eric Smokes, who was 19, and ...

FILE - Pedestrians stand outside Manhattan Criminal Court as media and security amass nearby, Monday, April 3, 2023, in New York. A pair of childhood friends who were convicted in the killing of a ...

Thirty-seven years after teenagers Eric Smokes and David Warren were busted for a Times Square murder they maintain they did not commit, the two childhood pals had their names cleared Wednesday by a ...

In the early hours of New Year’s Day in 1987, a French tourist was mugged while walking with his wife through Times Square. The man, 71-year-old Jean Casse, struck his head on the pavement. He was ...