New York car dealership owner faces 3rd murder trial after wife vanished in 2001
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}FILE - In this July, 2009, file photo, Calvin Harris listens during his trial at the Tioga County Court in Owego, N.Y. Harris, whose two previous convictions for killing his estranged wife were reversed by appeals courts, is set to go on trial again. Michele Harris disappeared after leaving her waitressing job on the night of Sept. 11, 2001. Prosecutors will go before a jury for a third time on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015. (AP Photo/The Star-Gazette, Jeff Richards, Pool, File) (The Associated Press)
Opening arguments have begun in the third murder trial of a wealthy upstate New York businessman who has twice been found guilty of killing his estranged wife.
Calvin Harris is facing a third trial after years of proclaiming his innocence in the death of Michele Harris. She disappeared after leaving her waitressing job on the night of Sept. 11, 2001. Both previous convictions against Calvin Harris had been overturned, one by New York's highest court.
Prosecutor Kirk Martin in his opening statement Thursday said the evidence will show that Calvin Harris "exercised the ultimate act of control."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Lawyers for Harris, 53, have claimed authorities zeroed in on the wrong man.
The couple's four children were in court in Schoharie County.