A black man who was found not guilty of armed robbery will still serve up to seven years behind bars after a judge ruled he had breached the rules of his probation sentence for another crime.
Ramad Chatman handed himself in to police when he found out he was a suspect for an armed robbery at a convenience store in his hometown of Georgia in July 2014.
"He turned himself in because he knew he was not guilty," his grandmother Janice Chatman told US news channel 11Alive.
The following February, a judge decided it was likely he did commit the robbery and as a result Chatman was re-sentenced for the original crime of stealing a TV and ordered to serve 10-years behind bars, back dated to the day of the crime.
But when the armed robbery trial came to court in August, he was found not guilty.
Presiding Judge John Niedrach, disagreed with their verdict however.
So despite the fact police never recovered the weapon, stolen money, or any other evidence connecting him to the robbery, he declined to release Mr Chatman, who remains in prison for violating the terms of his first probation order.
"What Judge Niedrach has done to my grandson is an injustice,” she told the Rome News Tribune. “When my grandson was proven not guilty, he should’ve been let out.”