NEW YORK — Almost a quarter-century after a notorious tourist slaying that fueled a sense of a city out of control, one of the convicted killers made a new bid for exoneration Monday, with the help of a man cleared in the case.
Lawyers for Johnny Hincapie filed papers seeking a new trial for Hincapie in the death of Brian Watkins, a 22-year-old killed defending his mother from a subway-platform mugging in September 1990. The family was in town from Provo, Utah, to attend the U.S. Open tennis tournament.
