Judge Tosses Conviction In Infamous '90 Nyc Tourist Killing

NEW YORK (AP) — A man imprisoned for a quarter-century in a notorious tourist killing was granted a new trial Tuesday when a judge overturned his conviction in a case that helped crystallize an era of crime and fear in the nation's biggest city. The killing became a symbol of random violence in a city that was reeling from it, after the 1989 rape and beating of a woman known as the Central Park jogger and a spate of bloodshed in the summer of 1990. Watkins' death — one of a record-setting 2,245 in 1990, compared to 333 last year — brought a public plea from Watkins' family for better subway safety and helped prompt then-Mayor David Dinkins to propose a program designed to increase police protection. Watkins, 22, and his parents were in town from Provo, Utah, for the U.S.

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