CASE DROPPED AGAINST MAN JAILED 25 YEARS

NEW YORK Prosecutors dropped a case Wednesday against a man who spent a quarter-century behind bars in an infamous tourist killing before getting his conviction overturned.

Johnny Hincapie’s was freed when his conviction was overturned in 2015, but he had faced the possibility of a retrial and potential return to prison.

“I can finally move forward with my life,” Hincapie said.

Hincapie, now 44, said he falsely confessed to playing a part in a 1990 New York City subway-station mugging that ended with the deadly stabbing of Brian Watkins, a 22-year-old visitor from Utah.