ATLANTA - Georgia's top court has reinstated rape convictions of a man accused of making women don pantyhose with a hole and then raping them.

The court's unanimous ruling today reverses a decision by the Georgia Court of Appeals that had thrown out the convictions against Ali Nejad, who authorities dubbed the "Pantyhose Rapist."

Nejad was convicted in 2005 or raping two women in separate assaults and he was suspected in several others. But an appeals court reversed his conviction and 35-year prison sentence in 2009 on grounds that he had received "ineffective assistance of counsel."

The Georgia Supreme Court's ruling found that the trial court followed proper procedure and that the appeals court erred in making its ruling.