(CNN)Lina Taylor has long claimed that her ex-husband did not intend to lose her 22-month-old son Cooper. I did. The backside of a hot and humid SUV eight years ago.
"What he wanted, what he was loved, and what he misses every day," she said in a statement released by lawyer Lawrence Zimmerman.
The Georgia Supreme Court has juryed evidence submitted by Harris's extramarital sexual prosecutor (depicted as the motive behind his decision to kill his son). He ruled 6-3 that it had an unreasonable and detrimental effect on the members.
"Because the well-recognized evidence that the appellant deliberately and deliberately killed Cooper was not overwhelming," the court said. It did not contribute to the jury's conviction.
Taylor has no intention of killing an only child since the hot summer day of June 2014, when Harris tied Cooper to a rear-facing child seat behind the SUV and left it there for seven days. Insisted. time. That's what she told the police that day, and she later testified at Harris's trial.
She still believes it.
"This doesn't change anything about my daily life, but I hope to show people what the people closest to the case are saying from the beginning," Taylor said in his statement. Said in.
"Ross was a loving and proud father to Cooper. At the same time Ross was a terrible husband. These two things could and did exist at the same time."
In addition to three murders, Harris was found guilty of two atrocities against a child against Cooper's death and three charges related to the electronic exchange of lewd material with minors. became.
The Georgia Supreme Court only overturned Harris' conviction for a crime against his son. According to the ruling, Harris did not challenge others in her appeal, but they remain in place.
Harris was sentenced to a total of 12 years in prison for these three charges: 10 years for one count of attempts at sexual exploitation of children, harmful substances to minors According to a court ruling, one year each for two counts of the spread of.
The Cobb County District Attorney's Office will file a motion to reconsider the judgment in the court, the office said in a statement and declined further comments.
CNN is seeking comment from Harris' lawyer.
In June 2014, Harris tied Cooper to a car seat and drove from his family home to nearby Chick-fil-A.
Then, instead of dropping his son in day care, he went to work, parked and went inside. Cooper remained tied to the car for the next seven hours.
He stopped by the SUV early that afternoon and put the light bulb he bought in his passenger seat. But Harris said he noticed that his son was still in the car until that afternoon when he was driving to a nearby cinema. He pulled the child's body from the SUV and pulled it into the parking lot of a shopping center.
On-site witnesses said Harris appeared distraught, but Cobb County prosecutors left Cooper trapped in the car that day at trial, out of his family's duty. Claimed to be released. The
state described Harris as living a "double life." For one, Cooper was a loving father and husband to his wife, family, and his friends. However, he was also engaged in online sexual communication with multiple women, including two underage girls, while continuing extramarital sex in public.
Attorneys argued that Cooper's death was a tragic accident caused by the loss of his father's memory.
Taylor told the Cobb County prosecutor in a statement that "overkill" and "abuse of power" ultimately led to a High Court ruling.
"It's been eight years since Cooper died, and the children die the same every year," she added. "Waste of valuable resources to prosecute parents when this happened is not the answer."
Taylor said, "In a law requiring a device that could stop these tragedy," it's actually life. Put money in something that can save you. " "