A man by the name of Freeman Ray Harrison, Jr. who was convicted in a Rutherford County Courtroom of two counts of aggravated sexual battery and one count of reckless endangerment appealed his case in 2013 and lost. Harrison has now appealed his appeal. The subject was sentenced to spend 20-years behind bars, which is where he will remain.

Court records show that in June of 2010, Harrison was charged by indictment with rape of a child, aggravated sexual battery, incest, soliciting, sexual exploitation of a minor, and reckless endangerment, following allegations that he abused his six-year-old step-granddaughter in September 2009. He was later convicted and ordered to serve 20-years in prison without the possibility of parole.

Harrison filed the appeal because he claims the courts should not have allowed for family members testimony and that Rutherford County was not the appropriate venue for the case to be heard. In his second appeal, he suggested counsel failed to retain medical experts. The Court of Criminal Appeals disagreed and affirmed the trial courts conviction and later affirmed the judgement of the post-conviction court.

Harrison was originally sentenced by Judge David Bragg in a Rutherford County Courtroom. He will be released from prison when he is 70 years old in year 2028. The 56 year old is being held at the Northwest Correctional Complex in Tiptonville, Tennessee.

Source:

Court Documents from 2016 (Read the File Here)

Court Documents from the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals (Read the File Here)