I would think that they would, sans the affair stuff. Still have plenty of motive. He didn't want to be a father. Just like Scott Peterson.I hope they retry him.
I think the sexting was highly relevant because he was doing so WHILE he was supposed to be taking his child to daycare and while his son was overheating to death in the car. I think it was criminal negligence at the very least.I agree with their decision. I think he was given an unfair trial.
Unpopular opinion I know, so I won't be hanging about.
"Because the properly admitted evidence that Appellant maliciously and intentionally left Cooper to die was far from overwhelming," the court's opinion said, "we cannot say that it is highly probable that the erroneously admitted sexual evidence did not contribute to the jury's guilty verdicts."
Nahmias wrote in the majority opinion that it was clear that Harris did leave his son in the back of his sweltering SUV, but it was up for debate whether he did it “intentionally and maliciously.”
The state “convincingly demonstrated that (Harris) was a philanderer, a pervert, and even a sexual predator,” Nahmias wrote. “This evidence did little if anything to answer the key question of (Harris’) intent when he walked away from Cooper, but it was likely to lead the jurors to conclude that (Harris) 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.”
I agree.I agree with their decision. I think he was given an unfair trial.
Unpopular opinion I know, so I won't be hanging about.
"They brought those two charges together in one trial, and the Supreme Court said, 'Wait a minute.' All of that evidence relating to his texting these underage girls should not have been considered by the jury when they're deciding the murder case and it was unfairly prejudicial – it made Harris look like a bad guy, and obviously he was, the jury convicted him on the sex crime charges, but they should not have had that evidence bleed over into the murder case.
And you were right. I thought it was going to be a hung jury. Why did you think it was going to be guilty on all charges?
So, does he go free, or can they keep him on the other conviction?
But Harris will remain in jail. As part of his sentencing, he received 12 years in prison for those communications - that conviction remains in place, and he will continue serving those 12 years.
I totally agree.I think the sexting was highly relevant because he was doing so WHILE he was supposed to be taking his child to daycare and while his son was overheating to death in the car. I think it was criminal negligence at the very least.
[ NOT directed at you personally, AAT----]
2 different cases.I would think that they would, sans the affair stuff. Still have plenty of motive. He didn't want to be a father. Just like Scott Peterson.
Same here. Let them retry it. The sexual stuff wasn’t a motive. IMOI agree with their decision. I think he was given an unfair trial.
Unpopular opinion I know, so I won't be hanging about.
I think he probably intentionally killed Cooper, but I agree. He did not get a fair trial. The jury was prejudiced against him because his unrelated sexual activities. As if every man who goes to sex workers or sends explicit texts behind his wife's back has a motive to murder his child.I agree with their decision. I think he was given an unfair trial.
Unpopular opinion I know, so I won't be hanging about.
No, he could have been texting about anything at all but that does not not justify a charge of malice murder. The reason he was distracted does not matter. IMOI think the sexting was highly relevant because he was doing so WHILE he was supposed to be taking his child to daycare and while his son was overheating to death in the car. I think it was criminal negligence at the very least.
[ NOT directed at you personally, AAT----]