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Minute-by-minute: Day 22 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:

4:55 p.m. Judge sends jurors home for the day. Deliberation will begin Tuesday morning.

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3:41 p.m. Court resumes. Judge Mary Staley gives jurors their charge.

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2:45 p.m. "Who's gonna speak for Cooper?" Boring says. "The evidence speaks for Cooper. It can't bring him back, but what can be done is justice and you as a jury have the opportunity to do that justice."

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2:43 p.m. "This case is about justice and its about that little boy, Cooper Harris. Today that boy would be four years old ... but he's not. He's not here with us because that defendant took him, that defendant took his life for his own selfish, obsessed reasons. That little boys never gonna get that chance and those chances he would have had."

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2:42 p.m. Common sense and these reasons show that this defendant is guilty," Boring says.

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2:38 p.m. Boring says the fact that Harris threw light bulbs into the passenger seat at lunchtime instead of setting them down is not normal. "Who throws light bulbs?" Boring says.

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2:31 p.m. Boring says witnesses on the scene said the car seat was inches from Harris.

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2:23 p.m. Boring says Harris claimed to love his wife as well.

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2:17 p.m. Boring says this defendant was "so good" that no one in his life knew all the things he was doing.

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2:13 p.m. "Accident only applies if there is no criminal negligence. Accident does not apply in this case," Boring tells jurors. "But ladies and gentlemen, this was not negligence, this was intentional."

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2:06 p.m. Boring says Stoddard never lied. He testified based on the evidence he had at the time and the investigation was not complete. As it was completed, they learned more about the evidence and were able to piece different parts together.

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1:58 p.m. Boring says Leanna Harris was never going to accept that her husband did this to their son.

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1:54 p.m. Boring walks jurors through the timeline of the day Cooper died. "There is no way he missed that child," Boring said.

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1:48 p.m. Boring says justice is holding Harris responsible for Cooper's death.

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1:46 p.m. Court resumes from lunch. Prosecution begins second-half of its closing argument.

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12:26 p.m. Court recesses for lunch break. Will return at 1:30 p.m.

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12:25 p.m. "On behalf of Ross and Brian and Carlos, we trust you," Kilgore says closing his argument.

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12:24 p.m. Harris weeps as Kilgore replays a home video of Harris and Cooper for jurors.

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12:22 p.m. Kilgore presents ten "reasonable doubts" and tells jurors all they have to have is one to find Harris not guilty.

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12:18 p.m. "Justice isn't served only by finding someone guilty. Justice is doing what's right."

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12:16 p.m. Kilgore says the state has to disprove that this was an accident and they haven't done that.

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12:14 p.m. Kilgore says the problem with the state's argument is that Ross loved his son and that fact is un-rebutted.

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12:09 p.m. Kilgore says everyone reacts differently to tragedy. "Ross and Leanna acted very differently than some of us might. We don't condemn them for that."

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12:07 p.m. Kilgore says "grave suspicion" is not sufficient to convict Harris.

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11:59 a.m. "You've been misled. You have been misled throughout this trial," Kilgore tells jurors. "You're responsibility is to hold the state accountable."

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11:54 a.m. Kilgore says it wasn't unusual that Harris cleared his internet history on his computer or phone because he was a web developer.

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11:46 a.m. Kilgore talks about the "stench of death" a few detectives testified about. "They reported smelling what they wanted to smell. Why? Because it fit their theory."

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11:40 a.m. Defense says the theories detectives have don't match up. If Harris killed his son to get out of his marriage and his life, then why was Leanna Taylor, Harris' ex-wife, also a suspect in the death.

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11:31 a.m. Kilgore says during jury view of the car, jurors were looking for the car seat. "It's easy to see what you're looking for," he says. But he says Harris wasn't looking for his child.

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11:28 a.m. "When the detectives take the stand and they swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, is it?" Kilgore says about lead detective Phil Stoddard's testimony.

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11:22 a.m. Kilgore says the animation and doll the prosecution used to show the scene didn't have the correct measurements. He argues Cooper's head would not have been visible over the top of the car seat.

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11:16 a.m. Kilgore says Harris believed he's taken Cooper to day care. "Mistake of fact is not a crime."

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11:13 a.m. Kilgore says Harris talked about Cooper during that day as his son was dying in his car, but that wasn't enough to remind him that Cooper was in the car.

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11:05 a.m. Kilgore says Harris didn't try to hide or delete his Kik or Whisper app the day of Cooper's death. "Ask yourself 'Why?' Isn't the most likely answer because there was no murder underway? He's got no reason to think anybody's gonna be looking at his phone."

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11:03 a.m. Defense asks what Harris had to gain from killing his son. "What does he get?"

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11:01 a.m. Kilgore says Harris was already doing what he wanted to do and didn't need to kill his son to continue that.

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11:00 a.m. Kilgore says you don't make plans and search for a home in a good school district for your son if you're planning to kill him.

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10:57 a.m. "Was this investigation and prosecution a search for the truth or was it a search only for what was going to fit the state's theory?" Kilgore says to jurors.

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10:52 a.m. Kilgore talks about the cruise Harris was planning for his family. He says the fact that Harris was Googling about the cruise the day of Cooper's death proves that Harris was clueless that Cooper was out in his car. "The person planning to do what they say Ross did is not the type of person who takes their kid on a cruise."

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10:51 a.m. Defense says to find Harris guilty, the jury would have to do some "mental gymnastics" to get around the facts.

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10:49 a.m. Defense says for Harris to kill his son in such a horrible way, there would have to be some serious hatred for his son, but not one witness has said that.

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10:48 a.m. "In both of these lives the state wants to tell you about, there's something that's the same, and that's that he loved that little boy," Kilgore says.

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10:43 a.m. Kilgore says Harris' ex-wife's testimony should be clear evidence to jurors. "Ross ruined that woman's life. He humiliated her in front of the world. He took her son away. Do you really think that she's gonna come in here and her best friend's gonna come in here and say anything about how much Ross loved his little boy if they didn't know that this was an accident?"

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10:42 a.m. "Everyone testified that he was a loving, proud father," Kilgore says.

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10:37 a.m. Kilgore argues that in order for Harris to be guilty of negligence, he would have had to know that Cooper was still in his car. "If he doesn't know, there's no way it can be criminal negligence."

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10:33 a.m. Kilgore says Harris had no reason to kill his son. He goes through the counts and says Harris did not intend to cause Cooper harm (counts 2 and 4) and did not realize that his actions were causing his son's death (counts 3 and 5).

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10:31 a.m. Kilgore says Harris has taken responsibility from the day it happened. Kilgore says the reason the state can't prove beyond a reasonable doubt that this wasn't an accident.

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10:29 a.m. "If it's an accident, it's not a crime," Kilgore says. "Ross failed to take Cooper to day care. That has never been an issue. He failed. He left him in that car ... There's no question about it."

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10:27 a.m. Kilgore says if Harris was putting on a show, why was he doing it when he was alone in the room.

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10:26 a.m. Defense attorney Maddox Kilgore reads a part of Georgia code that reads, "No person shall be found guilty of any crime committed by misfortune or accident."

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10:25 a.m. Defense says this was an accident, "and in this case accident is a defense."

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10:24 a.m. Defense says from the second the lead detective arrived on scene, he decided this was a crime without any of the evidence.

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10:24 a.m. Court resumes. Defense begins its closing argument.

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10:05 a.m. Prosecution concludes its closing arguments by saying the car seat's position and visibility on June 18, 2014, makes Harris is guilty on all counts.

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9:58 a.m. Boring says malice is proved in Harris' short drive to work the morning of Cooper's death. He says Harris drove just .6 miles, which took him four minutes. He then spent 30 seconds inside his car with his son still in the car seat before going into work that morning.

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9:57 a.m. Boring says they do not have to prove premeditation for malice murder.

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9:54 a.m. Boring says count 1, Malice murder, means killing without justification, excuse or mitigation with malice aforethought. "There is no excuse" for that little boy's death, Boring says.

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9:53 a.m. Boring says this case is not about "ill-will or hatred." It's just that "he just that he loved himself and his other obsession more than that little boy."

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9:51 a.m. Boring says counts 2 and 4, felony murder and cruelty to children in the first degree, do not have a requirement of an intent to kill, but do have a requirement of malice.

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9:50 a.m. Boring says there's no chance this was just an accident. He says at a minimum, Harris is guilty of being negligent. "This isn't an accident because there is at a minimum criminal negligence and evidence shows there was criminal intent."

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9:43 a.m. Boring says Harris' statements and actions make him guilty of counts 3 and 5, felony murder and cruelty to children in the second degree. He says for these counts there is not intent to kill or malice needed to convict, just criminal negligence.

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9:40 a.m. Boring says Harris "coached a 16-year-old on how to perform oral sex" and sent photos of his genitals to a minor. Boring argues that clearly makes Harris guilty of counts 7 and 8, Dissemination of Harmful Material to Minors.

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9:38 a.m. Boring says Harris is clearly guilty of count 6, Criminal Attempt to Commit a Felony, to wit: Sexual Exploitation of Children. He says Harris asked a 16-year-old to send him a picture of her genitals at least six times.

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9:37 a.m. Boring goes count-by-count explaining Harris' guilt.

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9:30 a.m. Boring explains how to evaluate intent, motive and expert testimony to jurors.

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9:27 a.m. Boring tells jurors that Harris emotion wasn't real until he found out he was going to be arrested.

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9:19 a.m. "Guilty is responsible in this case," Boring says in response to the defense's opening statements in which they told jurors responsible isn't criminal.

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9:14 a.m. Boring says Harris' own brother said that sometimes the victim is someone whom the defendant actually loves. "Often times it's the last person that you would expect who would do evil to a child. Outwardly a great person, who appears to love and care for kids, can do the worst to children."

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9:13 a.m. "It was the only manner in which he could escape his son and in some sick, selfish, perverted, grandiose manner, became an advocate and get attention in that manner," Boring says. He says Harris thought he was going to get away with it.

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9:12 a.m. Boring says Cooper's car seat was visible from all angles, especially when you looked through the front of the car.

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9:09 a.m. Boring says the defense's expert witness agreed with them that this case doesn't fit in with other memory failure cases he's seen.

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9:04 a.m. "That is the other Justin Ross Harris," Boring says about Harris' relationships with other women.

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9:00 a.m. 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.

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8:58 a.m. Boring says Harris left Cooper to die an unimaginable, horrible death that Harris had watched a video about just five days earlier.

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8:58 a.m. Assistant district attorney Chuck Boring says that car seat was clearly visible to anyone inside that car, including Harris.

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8:56 a.m. Prosecutors argue Harris backed up and spent 30 seconds inside the car "before closing the door on that little boy's life."

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8:55 a.m. Prosecution begins closing arguments with the statement Harris made shortly before leaving his son in the car, "I love my son and all, but we both need escapes."

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8:51 a.m. Court resumes. Closing arguments begin.