NBC– A Georgia jury convicted Justin Ross Harris of murder and other felonies Monday in the death of his 22-month-old son, who was left inside a hot SUV for hours.
Harris, 35, faces life in prison without parole when he is sentenced Dec. 5 in Cobb County, near Atlanta, on the eight counts of malice murder, felony murder, cruelty to children and dissemination of harmful materials to a minor. He has 30 days to appeal the convictions.
Cooper Harris died June 18, 2014, after having remained in his father’s Hyundai Tucson for seven hours outside the Home Depot office where Harris worked in the Atlanta suburbs. Cobb County Superior Court Judge Mary Staley Clark moved the trial 275 miles to the southern Georgia city of Brunswick, citing pretrial publicity in the Atlanta area.
Prosecutors contended that Harris intentionally planned to kill his son to escape his family responsibilities while he pursued sex with prostitutes and other women he met online. The dissemination charges stemmed from sexually explicit texts and photos he sent to an underage girl.
Oh…that shit head. I remember this story. Draw & quarter.
He should spend the rest of his life ‘in the box’, like in Cool Hand Luke.
“Judge Mary Staley Clark moved the trial 275 miles to the southern Georgia city of Brunswick, citing pretrial publicity in the Atlanta area.”
This needs to stop. The media tried and convicted him two years before the trial. Because it was juicy. I’ve heard the term “Hot Car Murder Trial” thousands of times.
We knew the names of the infant, the father, the mother, the make of the car, the timing of the death, who the father sexted, when the divorce was filed, BEFORE a jury was seated.
Channels (in Atlanta) 2, 5, 11, and 46 should be billed for the cost of relocating the trial.
The ‘public need to know’ DOES NOT extend to poisoning damn near the entire state jury pool.
This wasn’t a dog he took to work with him and left in the hot car for fking crying out loud. He got his fair trial, now give him his fair hang’n.
BigGun, exactly. And let him meet his son again standing before God. Wada vile piece of shit.
He’ll be dead within six months.
Even most hardened criminals have a code of ethics when it comes to children.
I actually know nothing about the case…..it’s too damn disturbing to contemplate.
Many other people would have been so very grateful to have adopted that adorable child. That father was truly thinking only of himself.
@Lowell and @ those that gave his post a thumbs up: You could have had a change of venue and tried that case here in Dumbfukistan, the verdict would have been the same, and my CA county went with the criminal candidate.
If those don’t like what the judge stated, change the Public Records Act, then the liberals can whine about not getting ‘public’ information.
BigGun, I don’t disagree with the verdict at all. I trust a jury in these horrible cases to look at the evidence and make a determination. They did, I’ll trust their judgement.
I’m just pointing out the media released too much detail because it was a shocking crime just to bump their ratings.
That delayed the trial months.