Murder trial begins with photographs of dead toddler

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 | 2:57 p.m. CDT; updated 11:12 a.m. CDT, Thursday, September 3, 2009

COLUMBIA — A jury saw photographs of 2-year-old Cortez Johnson’s body today — the first day of testimony in the second-degree murder trial of the child's mother, Keyonda Lumpkins.

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