After Justin Ross Harris left their 22-month-old son, Cooper, to die in a hot car eight years ago, Leanna Taylor told police she did not believe he meant to do it. She stood by him on the witness stand during his murder trial and told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in an interview after the trial that Harris was no murderer.
“I don’t believe he planned the murder of his child – our child – I don’t believe that,” Taylor told the AJC in February 2017. “I don’t think he deserves to be in prison for the rest of his life.”
On Thursday, Taylor called the Georgia Supreme Court’s decision reversing Harris’ murder conviction “big news for Ross and his family. I know they are grateful for this turn of events.”
