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Post by kitty on Nov 11, 2016 17:23:50 GMT -5
I don't know if he's guilty of deliberately killing his son, but he's a total slimeball.
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Post by Graveyardbride on Nov 14, 2016 15:46:48 GMT -5
Justin Ross Harris Found Guilty on All Charges
The jury in the Justin Ross Harris case has reached a verdict. Harris, who was charged with killing his 22-month-old son, Cooper Harris, by leaving him in a hot car in an office park in June 2014, has been found guilty on all counts: malice murder, felony murder, cruelty to children in the first degree, cruelty to children in the second degree, criminal attempt to commit a felony and dissemination of pornography to minors.
After a change of venue from Marietta to Brunswick, the trial proceeded more than 20 days of witnesses from the prosecution and defense, and was followed by four days of jury deliberation before ending in the verdict that was handed down.
Harris and his defense team continue to maintain that Cooper's death was a tragic accident and that nothing in the state's evidence poroved otherwise.
The prosecution insisted that Harris deliberately left Cooper in the car and told others that he wanted to live a child-free life. The evidence included videos, photographs, cellphone records, emails, texts and other data.
In addition, Harris, who was married at the time of Cooper’s death, was carrying on what prosecutors called a “double life,” exchanging sexually provocative texts and images with other women, some underage – and this may have contributed to his desire to live a child-free life.
Source: WXIA, November 14, 2016.
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Post by catherine on Nov 14, 2016 21:56:40 GMT -5
In cases like this, I always wonder if the defendant was convicted because he's guilty or because he's a sorry excuse for a human being. It's hard to believe that even if he wanted a single lifestyle, that he would have picked such a horrible way to kill his own flesh and blood.
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Post by Graveyardbride on Jun 22, 2022 14:41:14 GMT -5
Murder Conviction Overturned in Georgia ‘Hot Car’ Case
The Georgia Supreme Court has overturned the murder conviction of Justin Ross Harris, who was convicted of murder in the death of his 22-month-old son, Cooper, who died in a hot SUV on June 18, 2014. The justices concluded much of the evidence of sexual misconduct brought out at trial was “needlessly cumulative and prejudicial.”
It was the prosecution’s contention that Harris intentionally left Cooper to die in the car so that he would be free of any restrictions in his pursuit of women he solicited online. According to Chief Justice David Nahmias, “The State convincingly demonstrated that Appellant was a philanderer, pervert and even a sexual predator. This evidence did little if anything to answer the key question of Appellant’s intent when he walked away from Cooper, but it was likely to lead the jurors to conclude that Appellant was the kind of man who would engage in other morally repulsive conduct (like leaving his child to die painfully in a hot car) and who deserved punishment, even if the jurors were not convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that he purposefully killed Cooper.”
Because the trial court denied the request of defense attorneys that the charges of sexual crimes be severed from the murder charge and evidence that Harris “maliciously and intentionally left Cooper to die was far from overwhelming, we cannot say that it is highly probable that the erroneously admitted sexual evidence did not contribute to the jury’s guilty verdicts,” Nahmias explained. “We therefore reverse Appellant’s convictions on the counts charging crimes against Cooper.”
“We are thrilled that the Georgia Supreme Court has reversed Ross’s murder convictions, but make no mistake – this decision comes as no surprise, said Carlos J. Rodriguez, a member of Harris’s defense team. “Inadmissible evidence can lead juries to wrongfully convict an innocent person. Today’s decision mirrors the very same points that we made to the trial judge and we were right. I only wish the trial court had listened.”
Cobb County prosecutors said in a statement they plan to file a motion for reconsideration.
Harris did not challenge his convictions for sexual crimes against a minor and such convictions stand.
Sources: ABC News, June 22, 2022; and Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, June 22, 2022.
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Post by kitty on Aug 1, 2023 14:01:58 GMT -5
Does anyone know what happened to this man after his conviction was overturned? Even though he was a total slimeball, it's hard to believe that he would deliberately let his son die in a hot car.
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Post by aprillynn93 on Aug 1, 2023 18:58:05 GMT -5
Does anyone know what happened to this man after his conviction was overturned? Even though he was a total slimeball, it's hard to believe that he would deliberately let his son die in a hot car. Yeah...if he wanted to kill his son, there are many other less noticeable ways to do it.
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