Minute-by-minute: Day 17 of the Ross Harris hot car death trial

GLYNN COUNTY, Ga. — It’s been more than two years since 22-month-old Cooper Harris died in the back seat of a hot SUV outside a Cobb County office building.

His father, Ross Harris, is now on trial for his death.

Follow minute-by-minute coverage of the case below:

4:26 p.m. Court adjourns for the day. Will resume at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday.

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4:25 p.m. State asks Leanna why it took so long for her to file for divorce. She says, 'I don't know what to believe."

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4:22 p.m. Leanna says Harris knew that if he cheated on her, she would leave him.

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4:21 p.m. Leanna agrees that she now knows that he was lying to her about messages she found on his phone.

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4:15 p.m. Leanna says Harris never told her that his "breaking point was low," like he told a woman on the Whisper chat.

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4:00 p.m. Leanna admits she's been watching parts of the trial from home. "It sounds like somebody who's very lost," she says about the sexts he was sending to other women.

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3:56 p.m. Prosecutor shows Leanna texts and tells her in between those texts with Harris, he was meeting with a prostitute. Leanna says she had no idea.

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3:40 p.m. State pushes Leanna to say Harris was a different person when he was at home with her than the man who sexted women and met with a prostitute, but she doesn't give direct answer.

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3:35 p.m. "I can't sit here and say that I was absolutely shocked to find out that he had gone outside of our marriage," Leanna says.

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3:32 p.m. "I didn't know. I absolutely didn't know. I knew that we had problems in our marriage but ... I didn't know what he was doing," she said.

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3:28 p.m. Prosecution says Leanna had no idea about Harris' double life. "I would agree that I did not know the depth," she said.

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3:23 p.m. State begins cross-examination.

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3:22 p.m. Leanna says Harris loved Cooper "very much."

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3:10 p.m. Videos show Harris pushing Cooper on the swings and sliding down the slide with him.

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3:00 p.m. Leanna cries as she watches the videos play.

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2:55 p.m. Court resumes from break. Defense shows home videos of Cooper and Ross.

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2:30 p.m. Court recesses for afternoon break.

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2:05 p.m. Harris cries in court as the defense scrolls through photos his son and him.

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2:03 p.m. Defense and Leanna walk jurors through photos of Harris and Cooper through the years.

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1:44 p.m. Leanna says Harris was involved in a fire cracker accident in 2006. She says a fire work went into his ear and exploded. Since that time, he was deaf in his right ear.

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1:41 p.m. Leanna says Harris interviewed for a job at Chik-fil-A but didn't get it.

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1:24 p.m. Leanna says Harris called in during Cooper's funeral and was able to speak through the phone. She says he was crying so hard she couldn't understand what he was saying.

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1:23 p.m. Court resumes. Taylor's testimony continues.

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12:00 p.m. Court recesses for lunch until 1 p.m.

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11:50 a.m. Leanna says Cooper was still well under the weight limit for their rear-facing car seat.

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11:44 a.m. Leanna talks about their plans to buy a home. Says school district was very important to Ross. She says Ross was very ready to buy a house but they weren't ready financially.

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11:41 a.m. Leanna says Cooper was comfortable in his car seat and slept easily.

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11:38 a.m. Leanna tears up as the defense shows her photos of Cooper. She said Harris sent her a photo of Cooper sleeping from day the week before Cooper's death.

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11:36 a.m. Leanna says Ross took pictures and sent them to her because she was nervous when they first started taking him to day care. She says it then became a regular thing, but once he started moving around more she told him "It's ok. You don't have to send them to me every day." She says she told him that in March 2014.

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11:26 a.m. Leanna says officer's executed a second search warrant on their home a few weeks later. Leanna says, "It was very scary," because she hadn't really had any dealings with law enforcement prior to this.

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11:16 a.m. Leanna says she was never told she was a suspect until her computer, with all the photos and videos of Cooper, was seized by police.

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11:14 a.m. Leanna says she didn't want to go into her house that night. "It was like I knew if I went into my house it would be real and I didn't want it to be real." She said when she finally did she went straight to Cooper's room, crawled in his bed and just cried. "I finally was able to cry," she said.

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11:11 a.m. Leanna says leaving their son in a hot car was "a fear." She said she'd seen PSAs and seen it on the news and it was a "irrational fear." "I didn't have a reason to fear this. Nothing had ever happened to make me fear this," she said. She said she told that to detectives.

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11:07 a.m. "He talks a lot even if he doesn't have anything to say," Leanna says about her comment when she asked Ross if he'd said too much. Leanna says she didn't understand why he was being charged and the only thing she could think was, "What did you say (to make them want to charge you)?"

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11:05 a.m. "It was very difficult to see him like that. That's not a side of Ross I've seen that often. To see him that broken and just beside himself ... It was just raw," she said.

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11:03 a.m. Leanna says she didn't recognize herself watching that interview back. "It was like somebody else took over my body," she said. "Everything was foreign when I went back and watched that."

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11:02 a.m. "I tried to, the best I could, just be supportive, be the rock in that room," she says about when she saw her husband for the first time.

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11:01 a.m. Leanna says she was not aware that her interactions with Ross at the police department were recorded.

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10:58 p.m. "The whole night was the same and the weeks following. It just didn't feel real. It felt like I was gonna wake up. This is a nightmare," Leanna says. "It was like I was going out of my mind. My body was there but it didn't feel like I was all there."

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10:53 a.m. Leanna said she tried multiple times to find out where her son was, but couldn't get an answer.

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10:52 a.m. Leanna said when she arrived at Cobb police headquarters she tried to keep herself together because, "I knew I needed to be strong for Ross."

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10:50 a.m. Court resumes from break. Taylor continues her testimony.

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10:07 a.m. Court recesses for morning break.

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10:03 a.m. "I didn't understand. It wasn't real. Sometimes it still doesn't feel real," Leanna says through tears. She says she couldn't cry that day and she didn't understand why.

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10:02 a.m. Leanna says when detectives arrived it wasn't real for her. "I didn't know anything and I just wanted them to tell me what had happened."

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10:00 a.m. Leanna says the security guard who was with her that day told her what he knew. He said that on the news they said a child had died and it was Harris' car.

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9:59 a.m. Leanna says as she sat there her phone rang and it was a detective. They told her to stay put and they would come to her. "I said, 'It's bad isn't it?' And he said, 'Yeah it's bad.'"

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9:57 a.m. Leanna says the news was on in the lobby but she never saw what was on the TV.

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9:55 a.m. Leanna says she tried to call Harris every 2-3 minutes, but never got him on the phone.

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9:54 a.m. She says the only thing that made sense to her, based on what she knew that day, is that her husband must have left him in the car.

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9:53 a.m. "I was starting to lose my ability to understand what was going on. It didn't make sense. Cooper was supposed to be at daycare. I was supposed to be the one to pick him up. It didn't make sense," Leanna says fighting back tears.

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9:52 a.m. Leanna says on June 18, 2014 she went to check Cooper out of the computer system and he wasn't checked in for the day so she went back to his room. The teacher told her "Cooper's not here. He didn't come today." Leanna says she went into a panic.

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9:46 a.m. Leanna talks about the day Cooper died. She says she believes she talked with Harris on the phone about who was going to pick Cooper up from day care that day.

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9:41 a.m. Leanna says she was a child of divorce and didn't want that for Cooper. "For me, marriage was forever."

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9:37 a.m. Leanna says she offered him a divorce in fall 2013 and he told her, "That's the last thing that I want."

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9:35 a.m. Leanna says she didn'tt know Harris was cheating on her. She says she did not know about the sexting or all the woman with whom he had relationships. "If I had I would have divorced him then. I would have left."

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9:34 a.m. Leanna says she found another message on his phone in 2013. She says it wasn't sexual in nature but she knew it was from a female.

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9:30 a.m. Leanna says in 2013, she and Ross began seeing a counselor for their marital problems. She says they went once a month for most of that year.

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9:24 a.m. Leanna says Harris told her in 2008 that he had a problem with pornography. Two years later, she found sexual text messages on his phone and confronted him about it. She says they then met with their pastor and set up a program on his phone that would track websites that he went to and send it to an accountability partner.

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9:22 a.m. Leanna talks about the problems in their marriage. She says they had intimacy problems, but they got along well and co-parented well.

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9;12 a.m. Leanna says when Harris felt uncomfortable or was upset he would "overcompensate with confidence."

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9:11 a.m. "Did you ever see Ross express anger or hatred or malice towards his son?" defense attorney Maddox Kilgore asks. "No, never," Leanna responds.

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9:08 a.m. Leanna says Harris had a tendency to exaggerate.

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9:03 a.m. "He wanted to be the one to push him on the swing. He wanted to be the one to slide down the slide with him. He wanted to be with him enjoying every second with him," Leanna says about Harris' relationship with his son.

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9:00 a.m. Ross Harris cries as Leanna talks about Cooper on the stand. Leanna says Harris was proud of his son.

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8:58 a.m. Defense asks Leanna to talk about Cooper. Leanna cries as she talks about how much she misses her son.

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8:55 a.m. Court resumes. Defense calls Ross Harris' ex-wife Leanna Taylor to the stand,

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