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Toddler left to die in SUV

The judge in the trial of a Georgia man accused of intentionally leaving his toddler son in a hot SUV to die has granted a defence request to move the trial.

Attorneys for Justin Ross Harris had asked the judge to move the trial, arguing Monday that pretrial publicity has tainted the jury pool. Harris faces charges, including murder, and has been in jail since the day 22-month-old Cooper died in June 2014.

Prosecutor Chuck Boring argued that the fact that the defence has agreed that 36 of the jurors questioned are qualified to be in the jury pool shows that an impartial jury can be found in the metro Atlanta county where the child died.

Harris is from Tuscaloosa, Ala.



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