The hot-car death of 22-month-old Cooper Harris was heartbreakingly familiar. His father's unusual murder conviction has now been thrown out
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Those nightmarish hot-car death cases often draw national attention. But they rarely lead to criminal charges from prosecutors who must weigh the intent of grieving parents who insist they simply forgot leaving their child in a hot car.
His father, Justin Ross Harris, a 33-year-old web developer, brought the still-groggy toddler into the bed he shared with Leanna Taylor, his wife of eight years. Just under three feet tall, with wisps of blond hair framing his cherubic face, Cooper snuggled with mom and dad -- and nodded out again.
Before the sun rose over the Cobb County city of Marietta that morning on June 18, 2014, Harris had already sent or exchanged online messages -- some sexual in nature -- with at least four young women, one of them 17.