2. The first US evidentiary hearings.
In 1987, Florida’s Assistant State’s Attorney, Tim Berry began collaborating with forensic director Michael Baird to determine how DNA could be used in identification. After a serial rapist terrorized 23 women in Orlando, Tommie Lee Andrews was caught by two fingerprints left on a victim’s window, identification by a victim in a lineup, and with the same blood type left at each scene.
After two retrials, during which time Baird had been both meticulously processing the DNA evidence and Barry prepared compelling legal briefs, in the final trial Andrews complicity was proven by his DNA, genetic profiling was admitted for the first time, and DNA gained legal precedence