The Georgia Supreme Court has reversed the murder convictions of Justin Ross Harris in the death of his toddler son, Cooper, eight years ago in a hot car, saying the judge allowed the jury to hear “an extensive amount of improperly admitted evidence” of sexual messages exchanged between the father and random women.

The court upheld convictions for sexual crimes against an unnamed teenage girl—attempt to commit sexual exploitation of a child and dissemination of harmful material to a minor—which defense attorneys argued at trial and on appeal should have been separated from the trial on charges related to Cooper’s death.

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