ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A man will serve life in prison after he was convicted of raping a woman at her Cobb County apartment nearly three decades ago, according to prosecutors.

Juror recently convicted Jerry Lee Pruitt on charges of rape, kidnapping with bodily injury, aggravated sodomy, aggravated assault, burglary and false imprisonment after deliberating for less than an hour, the Cobb County District Attorney’s Office said in a press release Friday.

The judge then sentenced him to two life sentences plus 20 years, which will run consecutively to the sentence he’s already serving for another sexual assault in Alabama, according to the DA’s office.

Early on the morning of Oct. 23, 1997, the 27-year-old victim was walking out the door of her Kennesaw apartment when an unkn

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