COLUMBIA, MO. -- Boone County Prosecutor Dan Knight headed to Kansas City last night for today's jury selection in the murder trial of 27-year-old Horace Johnson.
Knight has charged Johnson with second-degree murder in the 2008 death of his two-year-old son, Cortez.
Medical examiners said the boy had been burned, cut, and bound before he eventually died from a blow to the head.
A jury is selected in Clay County will be brought back to Columbia for the trial.
In September, a jury found the boy's mother guilty of second-degree murder.
The judge sentenced 27-year-old Keyonda Lumpkin to 24 years in prison.
During her trial, the prosecutor said the boy's body bore evidence of more than 200 injuries at the time of his death.
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