MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Attorneys on both sides of the courtroom addressed a jury for the first time on Tuesday in the trial of a man accused of murdering his child's mother and throwing their 2-day-old daughter in the Mississippi River more than three years ago.

Prosecutors claimed that Brandon Isabelle started a new relationship shortly after ending a sexual relationship with Danielle Hoyle and getting Hoyle pregnant. Hoyle gave birth to their daughter, Kennedy, on January 30, 2022.

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Hoyle was released from the hospital on Feb. 1, 2022. Prosecutors claim that the new mother left the hospital and went to meet Isabelle because Isabelle said he had baby clothes for newborn Kennedy.

The state

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