COBB COUNTY, Ga. — A man who had recently been released from prison after being convicted of murder for leaving his son in a hot car has now been booked into the Cobb County Jail.
Justin Ross Harris was released from Macon State Prison on Sunday and booked into the Cobb County Sheriff's Office Adult Detention Center later the same day. He is serving time for two counts of misdemeanor dissemination of harmful materials to minors, according to jail officials.
Harris was originally sentenced in 2016 to life without the possibility of parole plus 32 years for the June 18, 2014, death of his 22-month-old son Cooper.
But in 2022, the Georgia Supreme Court overturned parts of the conviction related to Cooper's death. About 11 months later, the Cobb County District Attorney's office stated that they decided not to retry Harris on the reversed counts, a decision that "shocked" the lead prosecutor who originally tried the case.
However, Harris' initial conviction also included sex crimes against a 16-year-old girl, for which Harris was sentenced to serve 12 years. Those convictions -- for three out of the original eight -- were not overturned. The remaining convictions were two counts of distribution of obscene material, the counts he is now serving time for, and one count of sexual exploitation of a child, for which he was sentenced to serve 10 years.
According to Georgia Department of Corrections records, Harris was incarcerated in Macon State Prison from December 6, 2016, until Sunday.
11Alive reached out to Harris' lawyer for a statement, who declined to comment.