Case of Two Men Found Guilty of Murder in 1987 Ends in …
Jan 31, 2024 · Eric Smokes and David Warren were convicted of killing a French tourist in a mugging. Until 2022, prosecutors fought their attempts to prove their innocence.
Brooklyn friends who spent decades wrongly imprisoned for 1987 …
Feb 1, 2024 · Eric Smokes, 56, and David Warren, 53, were teenagers when they were arrested for the fatal mugging of 71-year-old Jean Casse on W. 52nd St, which unfolded moments after the ball had dropped on...
Friends imprisoned for decades cleared of 1987 New Year's ... - Fox News
Feb 2, 2024 · Eric Smokes, 19, and David Warren, 16, were arrested for Casse's murder and convicted despite maintaining their innocence. After nearly 40 years, their convictions have been overturned due to...
Friends Who Were Found Guilty of 1987 NYC Murder Have …
Feb 1, 2024 · Eric Smokes, now 56, and David Warren, 53, had been found guilty of murdering Jean Casse, a French tourist who was attacked and killed early in the morning of New Year’s Day 1987 near Times...
Brooklyn pals convicted for 1987 Times Square murder of tourist …
Oct 28, 2023 · David Warren in State Supreme Court on Jan. 14, 2020 in New York. (Alec Tabak for New York Daily News) But Judge Stephen Antignani in January 2020 dealt Smokes and Warren a serious blow when...
Times Square murder of tourist convictions vacated for friends – …
Jan 31, 2024 · A judge on Wednesday vacated the convictions of Eric Smokes and David Warren for a 1987 tourist murder in Times Square. The nightmare began early on New Year's Day that year, when a French...
Judge vacates convictions of two men in Times Square tourist …
Jan 31, 2024 · Eric Smokes and David Warren were convicted for killing a French tourist on New Year’s Eve in 1987. Their names were cleared 40 years later. Their convictions were overturned by the...
Two Friends Cleared in NYC Killing after 25 Years in Prison - The Root
Feb 6, 2024 · Four witnesses identified 19-year-old Eric Smoke and 16-year-old David Warren as the suspects in a lineup. Prosecutors then filed documents alleging the two knew each other and loitered in...
D.A. Bragg Moves To Vacate Two Unjust Murder Convictions Tied …
Jan 31, 2024 · Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., today announced his Office moved to vacate the murder convictions of Eric Smokes, 56, and David Warren, 53, for a fatal robbery and assault that occurred New Year’s Day 1987 near Times Square.
David Warren - National Registry of Exonerations
Feb 12, 2024 · In one incident, which took place on the subway around 1 a.m., a group of young men were said to have chanted “Howard Beach,” an apparent reference to the racially motivated shooting death 12 days earlier of a young Black man in …