Posted on 10/03/2016 3:34:31 PM PDT by Cecily
Justin Ross Harris simply forgot his son was in the car.
That's what defense attorney Maddox Kilgore hopes jurors will believe as they weigh the evidence in the first-degree murder case against Harris, with trial proceedings that begin today in the coastal Georgia town of Brunswick.
Harris, 35, is on trial for the first-degree murder of his son, who died from hyperthermia while locked inside the family SUV in June 2014 in Marietta, Georgia.
The high profile case looked like a tragic accident. But investigators subsequently said they found Harris had researched child deaths inside vehicles before his son perished.
'Evidence will show this was the worst imaginable death for a child,' Cobb County assistant district attorney Chuck Boring told the jury during opening statements Monday.
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The death penalty needs to be brought back into wide usage for murder, and not after decades. If they’re guilty, give them a week to repent, and then take ‘em off the planet. Hanging or firing squad are both cheap, I think hanging is better since rope is re-usable. It’s the green way....
“I remember reading a Michael Connelly story about just such a thing.”
I love that author, was this a short story? I’ve never read any of those.
I guess I sound creepy, being enthusiastic or whatever. I’m not and I probably wouldn’t even want to read it, but I do love Connelly and I am curious.
“He was busy sexton get with teen agents while his son boiled to death”
Huh ???????????????????
There is no mention of the wife in this story. Where is she?
I remember this. While “researched child death” seems a bit vague to me, the “sexting” with teenagers is not what a family man does. But let us give Anthony Weiner credit for once, he has not killed his son.
I truly hate auto fill
Sexting teen aged girls
now that is one heckuva an autocorrect sentence LOL!
I know you hated it but that is crazy! a moment of laughter on a sad thread. poor child is with Jesus now.
We should put him in a pit and forget to feed him.
:( RIP
It was in a book of short stories he wrote. That news story was so eerily similar to what he wrote.
The wife has divorced him, and I think she moved to another state to be closer to her family. I wonder if she will testify during the trial. Some of her behavior and things she said on and after the day the boy died were also strange.
I guess finding out hubby is sexting while at work is reason enough for divorce. Yes, I do remember she seemed strange too.
Of course, one might be strange if this happened, that’s what so hard to really know or understand.
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