mattox kilgore and his team. the entire case was a house of cards. we felt that despite public sentiment and despite the bravado and of the state and the charges, we felt extremely confident that house of cards was going to collapse in trial. in october 2016, more than two years after the death of his son, ross harris went on trial for murder. death. deception. and a double life. chuck boring, the lead prosecutor, told the jury why ross s story had never added up. that chick-fil-a video showed cooper wide awake. that drive was too short to forget a toddler. the car seat was just inches behind ross. and at ross s office there was a photo of cooper and a gift from cooper. he even sent a text to leanna in the afternoon about cooper. when you getting my buddy, it said. none of that jogged his memory? there was just cue after cue after cue, that if he had actually forgotten would have triggered something. and then the prosecution showed what it believed was
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heart of hearts he believes ross harris meant to kill his son. the prosecution said the jury got it completely right, but hearing the word guilty was no cause for celebration. what i want to hear most is we can bring cooper back. you can t get that though. three weeks later the judge sentenced ross to life in prison. his defense team has already filed an appeal, arguing among other thngs that the judge should never have allowed all that testimony about sex into the murder trial and they say inaccurate information early on about ross s computer searches made it impossible to get a fair trial. our personal belief, not lawyer talk, our personal belief in knowing ross, in knowing this case better than anybody in the world, ross hars is an innocent
right. but yet she did. because she believes 100% that it was not intentional. so there she was in court, not condemning ross but defending him. tell me a little bit about cooper. cooper was the sweetest little boy. he had so much life in him. he was everything to me. and everything to ross too, she testified, as the jury watched family videos of father and son. what are we looking at there? that s them in our bed, and they would just that s kind of a little game that they would play. leanna said ross was the kind of dad who always played at the park. you do it. go.
jury why she asked ross that question that made investigators so suspicious. did you say too much? i couldn t understand what was happening. i didn t understand why he was being charged, and the only thing that i could think in my head was what what did you say. and so those words came out. as for that prosecution theory that ross had wanted to escape his family for his secret life, leanna said it wasn t true. she had known for years that ross had a problem. i came home from work one day and he told me that he had a problem with pornography. two years after that probably i found a message on his phone that, i guess you would describe it as sexting. she says she worked hard to save the marriage and if ross had wanted out all he had to do was ask. i just very bluntly one night said, do you want a divorce?