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GBI director to become superior court judge in Cobb County

June 24, 2022 GMT

ATLANTA (AP) — The director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation will leave his position to serve as a superior court judge, the governor's office announced Friday.

Gov. Brian Kemp appointed Vic Reynolds, GBI director since February 2019, to serve on the Cobb County Superior Court.

Murder conviction overturned in Georgia hot car death case

By KATE BRUMBACKJune 22, 2022 GMT

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's highest court on Wednesday overturned the murder and child cruelty convictions against a man whose toddler son died after he left him in a hot car for hours, saying the jury saw evidence that was “extremely and unfairly prejudicial.”

Court to hear appeal of man convicted in son’s hot-car death

By KATE BRUMBACKJanuary 17, 2022 GMT

ATLANTA (AP) — A man whose toddler son died after he left him in a hot car for hours is asking Georgia's highest court to overturn his convictions for murder and child cruelty.

Justin Ross Harris, 41, was convicted in November 2016 on eight counts including malice murder in the death of his 22-month-old son, Cooper.

Man convicted of leaving son in hot car denied new trial

May 22, 2021 GMT

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — The judge who presided over the 2016 murder trial of a man convicted of leaving his son inside a hot car has denied his motion for a new trial.

Cobb County Superior Court Judge Mary Staley Clark's ruling, issued Thursday, was not surprising.

Man convicted of murder in hot car death to be sentenced

By KATE BRUMBACKDecember 3, 2016 GMT

ATLANTA (AP) — A judge is set to sentence a Georgia man Monday after a jury last month found that he intentionally left his toddler son in a hot SUV to die.

A jury convicted Justin Ross Harris, 36, in the June 2014 death of his 22-month-old son, Cooper...