Eyewitnesses: Harris ran over cheating husband three times
Posted on 02/11/2003 10:26:44 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
Eyewitnesses: Harris ran over cheating husband three times
02/11/2003
HOUSTON - Two men who saw Clara Harris fatally run down her adulterous husband with her Mercedez-Benz last summer testified Tuesday in her murder trial she hit him three times.
"I wasn't sure if what I was seeing was real," eyewitness Chris Junco said as he tearfully described the mayhem in a suburban Houston hotel parking lot July 24. "It was weird. I don't know how to describe it. The whole scene was very mad."
Junco and a second eyewitness, Oscar Torres, testified they saw dentist Clara Harris hit her orthodontist husband, David Harris, three times.
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He and Torres, the prosecution's final rebuttal witnesses, had been playing tennis across the street from the hotel when they heard the commotion and ventured closer.
"I even thought that the car was pissed off at him," Junco said.
Junco also said he believed Clara Harris intentionally killed her husband, though he acknowledged under cross examination by defense attorney George Parnham she appeared not to know what she was doing when she got out of her car.
"When she did get out of the car, she was different," Junco said. "She wasn't thinking correctly."
Clara Harris maintains her husband's death was an accident, and she intended to hit a sport-utility vehicle owned by his lover, whom she caught him with at the hotel that night. Prosecutors say she intentionally killed him.
Torres made numerous sound effects as he described what he saw. He said David Harris' teenage daughter, Lindsey, who was in the Mercedes with her stepmother, was screaming "like an animal would when it's in excruciating pain."
Torres also said he got close enough to see David Harris' body. "He was mauled and gasping for air," the witness said.
State District Judge Carol Davies told jurors to bring necessities for an overnight stay Tuesday in preparation for being sequestered although closing arguments weren't expected until Wednesday.
The eyewitness testimony Tuesday corroborated Houston police accident investigator Rolando Saenz, who earlier testified Clara Harris ran over her husband at least two times. Defense collision reconstructionist Steve Irwin had told jurors David Harris was hit just once in testimony Saenz said was flawed.
Irwin testified the turning radius of Clara Harris' Mercedes-Benz would have made it impossible for her to circle back and hit 44-year-old David Harris repeatedly.
Saenz, who has investigated more than 10,000 collisions over nearly two decades, disagreed.
"As you make a left hand turn, sometimes you will swing out right and it will change the turning radius," Saenz said, explaining how it would have been possible for the car to hit David Harris repeatedly.
Saenz also pointed to separate, distinct blood stains on the underside of the car as evidence Harris' orthodontist husband was run over at least two times and possibly more.
Saenz said Clara Harris also likely took a wider arc around the Lincoln Navigator of her husband's lover than Irwin surmised. That, the investigator said, probably offered Clara Harris a clear look at her husband standing near the open driver's door of his girlfriend's vehicle.
Parnham said the Houston police officer wasn't involved in the investigation last summer, hadn't interviewed witnesses on his own and implied his only role was to rebut Irwin's testimony.
After reading this by the way, I rushed out to Pep Boys and got those two little siren gizmos you put on your front bumper to frighten deer. I am going to do a study to see whether or not they work on dental personnel. Inquiring minds want to know.
Who'd take the risk of being her dental patient?
Cheatin heart ping
The first time was an accident, but then she got into the spirit of the thing.
Funny, women are forever writing letters to murderers, and even OJ finds girlfriends. But we don't hear about men doing the same thing do we?
I've always liked men.
Look what thread revived.
Any particular reason you’re resurrecting old threads?
Just looking around
What say you?
You who are rich and whose troubles are few
May come around to see my point of view
What price the crown of a king on his throne
When youre chained in the dark all alone?
Dental training imbues one with a sense of thoroughness. All the decay must be removed. OTOH, her husband was filling the wrong cavity. Had to be stopped. Professional standards.
Ping + Novocaine.
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