MARIETTA, Ga. - A man linked to a 1997 sexual assault through DNA testing has been convicted nearly three decades later and sentenced to life in prison, the Cobb District Attorney’s Office announced.

What we know:

Jurors found Jerry Lee Pruitt guilty of kidnapping with bodily injury, rape, aggravated sodomy, aggravated assault, burglary and false imprisonment after deliberating for less than an hour. Superior Court Judge Julie Jacobs handed down two life sentences plus 20 years, to be served consecutively with a sentence he is already serving in Alabama for another sexual assault.

The case began in the early morning of Oct. 23, 1997, when a 27-year-old woman was attacked inside her Kennesaw apartment. Prosecutors said Pruitt threw a jacket over her head, forced her back inside and ass

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