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Who received the first conviction based on dna evidence?

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Tommie Lee Andrews was convicted of defilement in November 1987 and sentenced to 22 years in jail based on both fingerprint analysis and DNA typing, making him the first person in the United States to be convicted based on DNA evidence.

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