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Minute-by-minute: Day 3 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.

TRIAL NOTE: The judge has canceled court Thursday and Friday because of the incoming hurricane. Court will last until around 6 p.m. Wednesday and will then resume Monday morning.

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

5:13 p.m. Judge recesses the trial until Monday. Court will not be held Thursday or Friday because of the incoming hurricane.

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5:11 p.m. Defense argues with Gallimore saying you cannot hear Harris tell Gallimore "f*** you" in patrol video. Prosecution says defense is insinuating that Gallimore is a liar. ADA Chuck Boring asks Gallimore if he has any reason to lie and Gallimore says no.

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4:59 p.m. Defense says Gallimore's report says Harris was "acting hysterical and extremely upset."

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4:50 p.m. Gallimore says he decided to detain Harris after Harris looked straight in his eyes and told him to "f*** you."

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4:48 p.m. Gallimore gets emotional as he talks about wanting to move Cooper's body from the hot pavement or cover his body up. "I even discussed with Officer Foglia like, 'Ok what if we put him in my car?' and she reminded me, 'Hey this is a crime scene. We can't."

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4:45 p.m. Gallimore says he believes Harris was acting on the scene that day. "Each person is different but there's also consistency in the way each person reacts to things ... and there was no consistency in the way he was acting whatsoever."

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4:37 p.m. Gallimore says he knows the area well and agrees with Foglia that Harris did not take the fastest route to the movie theater that day.

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4:31 p.m. State calls Cobb County Officer Brett Gallimore to the witness stand. Gallimore was on patrol with Foglia on June 18, 2014. He says they were patrolling the shopping center when they came across the scene.

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4:30 p.m. Foglia says Harris never offered to assist or help with Cooper as his body was lying on the ground.

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4:25 p.m. Defense attorney Maddox Kilgore reads from Foglia's report that at one point Harris tried to come back to the baby's side. Kilgore says all witnesses would have been able to see that.

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4:19 p.m. Foglia says Harris did not take the fastest route to the movie theater that afternoon. Insinuates along with the prosecution that, instead, he went to a more crowded area where people would be outside.

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4:15 p.m. Foglia describes Harris' demeanor on the scene as "odd," a word used by other witnesses as well. "He was pacing. He would shriek out, 'It was my fault,' and then he would be calm again ... He'd go from periods of long silence to shrieking again."

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4:14 p.m. Foglia says she and Officer Piper were the ones who detained Harris on the scene.

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4:10 p.m. Foglia says Harris came back towards Cooper while she and another officer were attempting CPR. She says she shooed him away because she did not know who he was.

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4:04 p.m. State calls Cobb County Detective Lindsay Foglia to the stand. Foglia was a patrol officer who was on the scene the day Cooper died.

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4:02 p.m. "If it were my child I would probably react a little differently. I'd shed tears and I probably wouldn't have put him on the hot asphalt, hot pavement as hot as it was. I probably would've been a little more attentive but again everybody grieves differently," Hamilton said.

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3:53 p.m. Hamilton says he along with witnesses Anthony Patano, James Hawkins and Ashleigh Womack, all of whom have already testified, were the only ones by the car trying to help that afternoon.

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3:48 p.m. "He was distraught. Everybody grieves in a different way so it's hard to say if it's believable," Hamilton said.

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3:47 p.m. Hamilton's statements are similar to other witnesses. He says Harris pulled Cooper out of the car, knelt beside him and then got up and walked away when good Samaritans took over CPR. He says Harris never asked anyone to call 911.

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3:38 p.m. Court resumes. State calls witness Dale Hamilton to the stand. Witness was in his car outside of a nearby Subway when Harris pulled in.

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3:06 p.m. Defense wraps up questioning Eastland. Court takes afternoon break.

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3:04 p.m. After re-listening to her interview with the detective, Eastland says she did say that Harris was doing CPR and yelling for someone to call for help. She also says she did tell the detective that nothing seemed suspicious.

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3:03 p.m. Defense wraps up questioning of Womack. Brings witness Eastland back to the stand.

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2:56 p.m. Womack says she found it strange that Harris was arrested so quickly on the scene.

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2:45 p.m. Prosecution plays Womack's 911 call from June 18, 2014.

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2:38 p.m. ADA Chuck Boring asks Womack if Harris ever came back to his child. She said no, the only person who touched the child was a good Samaritan. Womack, who is pregnant herself, says she thought it was "odd."

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2:35 p.m. Womack says at first she thought he was having a seizure, but then the other witness who was giving Cooper CPR turned to her and shook his head. She says that's the moment she realized Cooper was dead.

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2:33 p.m. "It's not something you ever forget," Womack said about seeing Cooper's body.

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2:32 p.m. She says Harris was screaming and pacing saying, "What have I done? I killed my son."

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2:29 p.m. Womack gives similar testimony to past witnesses that she heard screams that drew her attention towards Harris and his car. After talking with another witness and realizing what was happening, Womack says she ran towards the scene and called 911.

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2:28 p.m. State calls its next witness, Ashleigh Womack, who was at a nearby restaurant when Ross Harris pulled into the parking lot.

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2:25 p.m. Eastland sent out of the courtroom to re-listen to a statement she made to police in July 2014. On the stand, she told the defense she doesn't remember talking to the detective on the phone.

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2:13 p.m. Defense says Eastland told detectives nothing seemed suspicious that day. "I don't remember saying that at all," Eastland said.

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2:10 p.m. Defense says Eastland told police that Harris tried CPR and was yelling for someone to call for help. Eastland says she doesn't remember that but its possible.

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2:00 p.m. Eastland says Harris never went back to his child after walking away.

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1:59 p.m. "I couldn't help but to focus on (Harris) ... because he kept saying what had he done and he was nervous ... he was just getting my attention by that," Eastland said.

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1:56 p.m. Eastland says she saw Cooper on the ground and saw Harris put his hands on his head and walk away while another man was performing CPR.

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1:54 p.m. "He was frantic and he had yelled, 'What have I done?'" Eastland said about Harris.

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1:53 p.m. "I heard burning rubber," Eastland says about Harris pulling into the parking lot.

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1:51 p.m. Prosecution calls Artiyka Eastland to the stand. Eastland was eating on a restaurant patio near the scene and was at her car when Harris pulled into the parking lot.

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1:45 p.m. "As a six-foot tall man when you were standing within the door frame of the vehicle with your eyes could you see that car seat?" ADA Jesse Evans asked. "I could." Shumpert responded.

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1:44 p.m. Prosecution begins redirect by asking Shumpert if he would normally document smell during an investigation. He says it depends.

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1:38 p.m. Shumpert says second time he was sent to Harris house he was asked to check and see if light bulbs were out. He says three light bulbs were out in the bathroom. Defense says those are the light bulbs Harris stopped at Home Depot to buy on the day of Cooper's death.

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1:30 p.m. Court resumes. Judge announces trial will be canceled both Thursday and Friday because of the incoming hurricane. Shumpert's testimony resumes.

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

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11:54 a.m. Defense asks Shumpert if there was a smell in the car when he arrived. He says he didn't notice anything specific. "It's something that I wouldn't make note of. It's a baby, it's a toddler, they have a wet diaper," Shumpert said.

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11:29 a.m. Defense begins cross-examination of Shumpert.

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11:28 a.m. After going through dozens of photographs Shumpert said, "Photographs tell the story and I took a lot of them for this case."

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11:10 a.m. Shumpert and Evans walk jurors through photos of the Harris home.

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11:06 a.m. Evans shows crime scene photos of Leanna Harris' car in parking lot outside Ross Harris' office. Photos show Leanna Harris has a forward facing car seat for Cooper in her car.

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10:52 a.m. Shumpert said he was also responsible for processing and photographing Leanna Harris' car and the Harris home that day.

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10:49 a.m. Photo shows Harris' car reading outside temperature at 95 degrees at the time Shumpert was on the scene on June 18, 2014.

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10:44 a.m. Harris gets emotional and looks away as the prosecution begins to show crime scene video from the day Cooper died.

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10:35 a.m. Court resumes. Judge Mary Staley announces to jurors that trial will be canceled Friday due to the incoming hurricane. Court will end at 12 on Thursday.

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10:12 a.m. Court takes break until 10:25.

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10:03 a.m. Evans and Shumpert walk through Shumpert's photos of Cooper's car seat inside the car and then through photos of Cooper's body.

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9:55 a.m. ADA Jesse Evans and Shumpert are walking jurors through the crime scene photos Shumpert took that day.

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9:40 a.m. Shumpert says pavement where Cooper's body was lying was very hot. "There are many other places I would've placed a child."

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9:37 a.m. Shumpert describes seeing Cooper's body for the first time. Says it smelled like "hot, musty, urine-soaked diaper."

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9:33 a.m. Shumpert says from standing in the door frame of Harris car looking inside he could clearly see the car seat. Shumpert says he was not responsible for processing the inside of the car.

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9:30 a.m. Shumpert says Harris was already in the back of a patrol car by the time he arrived. He had no contact with Harris.

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9:27 a.m. Shumpert says he was responsible for photographing and processing the scene that day. That included taking photos of Cooper Harris' body.

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9:15 a.m. Cobb County crime scene technician Brad Shumpert called to the stand. Shumpert was on the scene the day Cooper Harris died. WARNING: His testimony could include graphic images.

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9:10 a.m. Court resumes with witness testimony.