The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals has reversed a decision of now-retired Judge Rebecca Stern in allowing Jereme Little to go free based on alleged ineffective assistance of counsel.
The Appeals Court, in a lengthy ruling, did not agree that the performance of Little's lawyer warranted freeing him from state prison where he had served seven years in prison.
Little was accused of tying a fellow robber up, beating him and forcing him to eat crack cocaine and dog feces. He was mad that the man had walked out during the hold-up, it was testified.
Little earlier was charged in a murder.