Trial - Ross Harris #9

[Hope4More]

State's case didn't get any stronger over the weekend.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Boring is now beginning his opening statement.

“I love my son and all but we both need escapes,” Boring said, repeating the line again to the jury. Harris sent that text message to a woman the morning of Cooper's death.

Those words were uttered 10 minutes before this defendant with a selfish and malignant heart did exactly that, Boring said.

He drove Cooper into that parking lot and “left him there to die,” Boring said. On that morning, he did exactly what he said he was going to do, he said.

Harris sat in the car for 30 seconds with his son inches from him “before closing the door on that little boy’s life,” Boring said.

 

[TexMex]

DA: we know he was unhappy at work, we know his wife complained he went out and that her priority was Cooper. Two days later he didn't get the job at CFA. On a day his wife was asking him to come home and spend time with them bcse they were leaving in 2 days, he lied to her and went to spend his time with a hooker in a seedy hotel

 

[SuperTmo]

I think this is so compelling towards malice.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Boring's opening statement continued:

That car seat was clearly visible to anyone inside that car, Boring said.

Five days before, Harris watched a video about how hot it gets in a car, Boring said. Even with a breeze and the windows cracked, you can kill a living being in no time at all, he said.

That’s a situation Harris, in his own words, contemplated for his son, Boring said. Harris knew the effectiveness of a hot car in killing a child.

“He closed the door on (Cooper's) little life because of his selfishness because of what was more important to him -- his obsession and his other life,” Boring said.

 

[Hope4More]

"Evidence of his nasty sex life is just that, evidence of his nasty sex life, not evidence of motive."

Kilgore, opening statement

 

[minor4th]

So the State is actually going with the theory that Ross murdered Cooper because Jaynie was "slipping through his fingers." (Eye roll)

 

[Hope4More]

Still going with Ms. Meadows as motive? Snort

 

[JerseyGirl]

Boring's opening statement continued:

In the weeks after a family vacation, at a time his wife was asking him to come home to spend some time with her and Cooper, he lied to her about what he was doing and he went to a seedy Marietta hotel and had sex for money with a prostitute, Boring said.

His behavior was escalating in the weeks leading up to Cooper’s death, he said. Harris was sexting with a 15-year-old.

Harris led a double life. “That is the other Justin Ross Harris,” Boring said forcefully.

In one message with a woman, he said that his conscience never kicked in, Boring said.

He professed love for many of these young girls, he said. The woman who he was most attached to was slipping through his fingers. She was gradually cutting him off. The day before Cooper’s death, he messaged her and she didn’t respond. The girl was 18 at the time.

 

[Hope4More]

So the State is actually going with the theory that Ross murdered Cooper because Jaynie was "slipping through his fingers." (Eye roll)

Jinx.

 

[SuperTmo]

RH's face says, "yeah... that does sound pretty bad."

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

How long does each side get for closing argument?

 

[JerseyGirl]

Boring says Harris left Cooper to die an unimaginable, horrible death that Harris had watched a video about just five days earlier.

Boring says after the Memorial Day weekend trip, that Harris did not want to take Cooper on, his behavior changed. He was upset about work and spent more time messaging other women. He also stopped taking as many photos of Cooper.

"That is the other Justin Ross Harris," Boring says about Harris' relationships with other women.

 

[TexMex]

So the State is actually going with the theory that Ross murdered Cooper because Jaynie was "slipping through his fingers." (Eye roll)

IMO the thought is she represents just one more thing Ross couldn't have because of LH/Cooper.

 

[MsJosie]

Turning off sound and just watching the faces and actions....interesting. Someone took acting classes.

 

[Hope4More]

An expert in hot car deaths, more so than anyone on earth??? Seriously?

 

[arkansasmimi]

so far Boring is kinda . boring jmho

 

[JerseyGirl]

Boring testimony continued:

While he is on the way to Chick-fil-A and sitting there with his son, he was responding to a Whisper message from someone saying they had nothing to show for being married.

He told this other person he couldn’t lead his other life the way he wanted,” Boring said.

It’s been days and days of testimony, he said. “It’s like groundhog day.” You all know you’re going to hear filthy stuff and gruesome facts every day, Boring said.

But what it all comes down to in this case can be summed up by the defendants own witnesses.

This case doesn’t fit the typical case of a failure of memory systems, Boring said. That was clear from the defense’s own expert witness, he pointed out.

He was in the car for 30 seconds with Cooper before leaving. He had to lean over to get a briefcase on the passenger side door, and he also got his Chick-fil-A cup – that he had just gotten while having breakfast with Cooper.

 

[Hope4More]

Going to use RH's " own brother's" words against him, making it sound like he actually said them about Ross?

"I get to go twice, yay clap!"

Geez.....

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Burned to death? :waitasec: