Article updated: 5/10/2013 4:25 PM

Judge makes Chicago man’s innocence official

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Andre Davis speaks with his mother on a cellphone outside the Tamms Correctional Center after being released from prison last summer.

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A Champaign County judge has signed a petition declaring a Chicago man innocent of the 1980 murder of a 3-year-old girl. Andre Davis spent 32 years in prison before his conviction was overturned.