Citing recanted testimony, poor legal representation, questionable police tactics and DNA evidence, a judge has thrown out the convictions of four men in the high-profile 2002 killing of basketball star Chris Paul's grandfather in Winston-Salem.

Forsyth County Superior Court Judge Robert Broadie dismissed the convictions with prejudice, 21 years after Nathaniel Arnold Cauthen, Rayshawn Denard Banner, Christopher Levon Bryant and Jermal Matthew Tolliver were found guilty in the murder of Nathaniel Jones.

The suspects were all 14 or 15 years old when they and another teen were arrested for the killing of Jones, who was found dead with his hands tied behind his back and his mouth taped shut outside his home in an apparent robbery the day after the 17-year-old Paul had committed to play bask

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