LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com/AP) — A Los Angeles judge has ordered the release of a man who spent more than three decades in prison for murder after prosecutors conceded he did not get a fair trial. 
 
 The district attorney’s office said during a hearing Wednesday in Superior Court that there were errors in the case against 62-year-old Andrew Wilson. 
 
 Judge Laura Priver granted a motion to dismiss the case. 
 
 Wilson quietly said “Thank you” to the judge, who replied, “You are welcome Mr. Wilson.” 
 
 Outside the courthouse, Wilson’s attorney’s were jubilant. 
 
 “I’m so happy!” Paula Mitchell with the Loyola Law School Innocence Project said. “I believe strongly in Mr. Wilson’s innocence and I know we’re going to help him get the rest of the way with the innocence finding. He did not do this crime and I’ll do everything I can to help the LAPD find who did it.” 
 
 He has maintained his innocence since his arrest in 1984 for the fatal stabbing of 21-year-old Christopher Hanson in Los Angeles. 
 
 A bailiff released Wilson immediately from handcuffs, but he’s not expected to be processed out of custody until later Wednesday or Thursday. 
 
 Another hearing will be held to determine whether he is factually innocent. 
 
 The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has said it will not re-try Wilson. 
 
 Wilson says he plans to return to St. Louis to spend time with his mother, Margie Davis, who will turn 97 on May 1. 
 
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 When help didn't come, she wasn't surprised. At 96, she said, she's learned that living in a country built on the idea of justice for all doesn't always lead to justice for everyone. So she was shocked — ecstatic — Wednesday afternoon when her son's lawyer called to tell her a Los Angeles County judge had just thrown out the murder conviction. 

 A man who spent 32 years behind bars for murder was ordered released on Wednesday after the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office acknowledged there were mistakes made that denied him a fair trial.Andrew Wilson, now 62, was convicted of murder in 1986 for the stabbing death of a 21-year-old man who was sleeping in a truck in Los Angeles.Wilson has always maintained his innocence and eventually his case was taken up by students and Loyola Law School's Project for the Innocent. "Mr. Wilson is elated," said Paula Mitchell, legal director with Project for the Innocent. "He is so glad this is finally over. When he first contacted our office, one of the things he said to us was this whole ordeal has been a nightmare for my entire family."Project officials said there were multiple due-process errors in his case and he never received a fair trial. For example, they say investigators never disclosed that the sole witness filed a false police report in another case just before Wilson's trial. They also said there was evidence that the victim's best friend told prosecutors before trial that the victim's girlfriend had stabbed him in the past.The DA's office recently conceded that its own investigation found that errors were made depriving him of a fair trial and the office does not intend to retry him.Attorneys say Wilson could potentially file a civil lawsuit in this case, but for now, he wants to hop on a direct flight to St. Louis to see his mother, who turns 97 on May 1.
– After 32 years behind bars, Andrew Wilson had his murder conviction thrown out Wednesday by a Los Angeles County judge. His first plan as a newly free man? Fly to St. Louis to visit his 96-year-old mother, who never doubted his innocence. Wilson, now 62, was convicted in 1986 of stabbing a man sleeping in a truck in Los Angeles, KABC reports. According to the Los Angeles Times, the victim had a disorder that kept his blood from clotting. For the past three decades, Wilson has maintained that he didn't do it. And while his actual innocence is still up in the air, it's now official that he didn't receive a fair trial. The DA's office has admitted that "cumulative errors" added up to an unfair trial for Wilson. Those errors include allegedly withholding evidence that the victim's girlfriend—the only witness to the crime—had previously filed a false police report regarding kidnapping and rape. Also allegedly withheld: evidence that an LAPD detective directed the girlfriend to a photo of Wilson and that a friend suspected the victim's girlfriend, as she had stabbed the victim in the past. The prosecutor in the murder case denies withholding evidence, and the DA's office maintains that Wilson murdered the victim (though it doesn't plan to retry him). CBS Los Angeles reports a separate hearing will be held to determine if Wilson is factually innocent.