Trial - Ross Harris #9

[Hope4More]

He sure did downplay FBS and forgetting....

 

[JerseyGirl]

Kilgore continues to address the jury:

Kilgore tells the jury that it must resist the impulse to find Harris guilty simply because he is unlikable as a person. But he admits the attractiveness of that outcome. "Nobody would question you," he said.

But he said that's not justice.

"Justice is holding the state to their burden," he says. "What could possibly be more just than saying to the state of Georgia, "We have followed the law. We've held you to your burden. And you haven't proven it. You haven't disproven that this was an accident. What could possibly be a more beautiful example of justice than doing the hard thing, then writing those two words. The state hasn't proven it, and he's not guilty."

Now Kilgore puts up slides that go into exhaustive detail on the meaning of "reasonable doubt."

And he puts up 10 points of evidence that would provoke reasonable doubt Harris deliberately killed his son.

"And you only need one," he says.

If the jury finds reasonable doubt, "It is your duty under the law to write two words: Not guilty."

"On behalf of Ross and Brian and Carlos, we trust you," Kilgore says closing his argument.

http://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-ne...s-harris-murder-trial/7yW34mxHDUxbdjIjTswD7M/
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/ross-harr...the-ross-harris-hot-car-death-trial/464790712

The End.

Court recesses for lunch break. Will return at 1:30 p.m.

 

[katydid23]

Good job in listing all of the reasonable doubts.

I wonder if the State will address them in the final statements..

 

[DaleTray]

I give the DT closing a 10

 

[Hope4More]

Powerful last image. That was the real Ross and Cooper.

 

[Deleted member 39678]

I wonder if the State will address them in the final statements..

They're going to have to.

 

[yupikgirl]

Because Leanna said so- not very powerful IMO. She didn't know him like she thought she did.




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[monkeypants]

Seriously does Ross have tear ducts?

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[blue22]

I wonder if the State will address them in the final statements..

Of course, they don't want the defense to have the last word/influence on that.

I hope they address the conspiracy. How ridiculous it is that all these people and LE would collude just to put poor Ross away.

 

[blue22]

Because Leanna said so- not very powerful IMO. She didn't know him like she thought she did.




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And she's a liar. On stand. No less than 3 times. But believe her now!!!

 

[Inthedetails]

I sure am thinking of Cooper today.

 

[Paige SC]

CAR ODOR.

Doesn't matter what was reported, I don't think it's possible for a boiling hot car containing a dead body to NOT reek of death. Or, at a minimum an unfamiliar odor that pierces your soul. Having smelled human death before I can tell you it's a smell so jarring, so penetrating you never forget it. I don't mean offensive like passing a dumpster, nor does it have to be a very strong odor. A whiff from afar is enough to rattle your inner core. You immediately know what it is, too. Indescribable, really.‎
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As a random side note, I've gotten lunch at the drive-thru before and although I didn't leave it in my car, upon returning several hours later (in the hot summer) ‎my car's interior reeked of putrid rot simply from the MOLECULES left behind from that lunch.

I've mistakenly left damp clothing in the car for a few short hours and lived to regret it for weeks. Same with a dirty diaper. A dirty diaper left in a hot car is stomach churning. You immediately start searching for the offensive item before hopping in your car & driving away.‎

Food aroma, diapers and wet bathing suits are nothing compared to human tissue & gas (not to mention most likely accompanied by a dirty diaper.)

Question, we're the windows rolled up or down when RH pulled into the parking lot, and/or how many doors remained open on his SUV?

At a minimum, RH should have smelled SOMETHING that jarred his 'memory' as soon as he opened the car when leaving work at the end of the day.

Regardless, the odor is KEY for me. It points to guilt beyond ALL reasonable doubt.
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[GA_Peach]

I think that Kilgore is a fabulous attorney. I had an affinity for him during vior dire, and he did not disappoint during the trial. I loved and appreciated his words to jury about what justice means. I bawled when I saw Cooper bouncing as the happy, upbeat music emaninated from Ross's guitar. However, Maddox Kilgore cannot change the underlying facts of this case. Ross is a client who did many despicable things, including leaving Cooper in a hot car to die, and now it is time for justice.

 

[katydid23]

Powerful last image. That was the real Ross and Cooper.

Was it? Was it not the 'real' Ross and Cooper when he was laying next to Cooper in bed and sexting a 14 yr old?

 

[blue22]

Was it? Was it not the 'real' Ross and Cooper when he was laying next to Cooper in bed and sexting a 14 yr old?

That will be a point hotly debated in the jury room, I'm sure.

 

[GA_Peach]

He sure did downplay FBS and forgetting....

100% agree. Do you want to know why I think he did that? (Probably not, but I am going to tell you anyway.) Because it's not what happened here.

 

[blue22]

I think that Kilgore is a fabulous attorney. I had an affinity for him during vior dire, and he did not disappoint during the trial. I loved and appreciated his words to jury about what justice means. I bawled when I saw Cooper bouncing as the happy, upbeat music emaninated from Ross's guitar. However, Maddox Kilgore cannot change the underlying facts of this case. Ross is a client who did many despicable things, including leaving Cooper in a hot car to die, and now it is time for justice.

I thought he was absolutely fantastic in the beginning and slowly spiraled down until the awful week last week...he just crashed. His closing was long, squeaky, and repetitive...but it was fine. It was not awesome, it was fine. JMO.

Curious to see what the state will do, as I don't see Boring as a good speaker. But hopefully he can hit on some points the defense set him up for.

 

[rob]

Kilgore continues:

The lead defense attorney says the state's complaints about the way Harris and his then-wife reacted to Cooper's death is nonsensical.

"None of us knows how we would react to that particular trauma," he says. "Nobody knows."

Kilgore says the state's strategy by putting up all the evidence and testimony about Harris's sordid secret life is designed to cover him with so much slime that the jury will find him guilty.

"None of that, none of that has got anything to do at all with Ross forgetting Cooper on June the 18th. It hasn't got ANYthing to do with it. Nothing. How does Ross getting fellatio in a car in Tuscaloosa a year and a half before Cooper died, how does that have anything to do with Cooper's death? At all?

"We all see what this is all about. The state wants to bury him in this filth and doubt -- of his own making -- so that you'll believe he is so immoral, so reprehensible, that he could do this. ... The problem is, the testimony that Ross loved Cooper is unrebutted."

The new thing for everyone to say is 'nobody knows how they would respond to trauma, disaster, etc...' but there is a believable and a non-believable way to respond. And if your response sets off everyone's hinky meter, then you mis-played it. I tend to think it's the 'actors' who come off wrong, because it's not a normal reaction, but their opinion of what a normal reaction would be.
I work with a drama queen, who is constantly making up scenes and responding to them in what she considers a flattering (to her) way, and she has no idea she is a laughing stock and no one believes a word she says or believes that what she is telling even happened. And she has no clue.
From the first day I heard of this, I thought RH was guilty and that LH may be involved. I still believe the same way, and if I was on that jury, he'd be going down for it.
Just my opinion. I'd be voting for guilty.

 

[DaleTray]

Was it? Was it not the 'real' Ross and Cooper when he was laying next to Cooper in bed and sexting a 14 yr old?

Like DT said in closing, I find JRH capable of both, loving his son while being a creep at the same time.

 

[minor4th]

I give the DT closing a 10

Me too. He said everything he needed to say, and he did it with conviction, passion and intelligence.