prior to break, testimony:
Brewer is discussing Harris’ routine route to work.
“That’s a well-worn path,” Brewer said. “When I am on this road, this is naturally the way that I go.”
Cooper went to Chick-fil-A but not as much as Harris went by himself. Publix, which Harris often went to lunch, is also along that route, Brewer pointed out. So there are disproportionately more times Harris traced that path by himself – without Cooper.
“His habit would naturally be to go to (his office) in this case,” he said.
On the day of Cooper’s death, he had the intention of taking Cooper to daycare. But there was also routine behavior that day – going to work after picking up Chick-fil-A by himself, not with Cooper, Brewer pointed out.
Then there’s this high traffic area with lots of distractions that demands attention, he said. That's true even though Harris was used to making that U-turn.
Kilgore now turns the discussion to internal distractions.
Harris had sent an email about work the previous night expressing dissatisfaction at his job performance. Cooper had woken him up early that morning. Harris was trying to start a new business with his friends.
“Are these matters which could create the kind of internal distraction that we’re talking about?” Kilgore said.
“Yes,” Brewer said.
It’s impossible, though, to know what Harris was thinking – that’s the nature of internal distraction, he said.
