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A murder trial is moving forward for a Florida man who threw his 5-year-old daughter off a Tampa Bay area bridge.Prosecutors made opening statements Monday afternoon at the Pinellas County Courthouse. It took a week for lawyers to agree on 12 jurors and four alternates to decide the fate of 29-year-old John Jonchuck.No one disputes that Jonchuck dropped his daughter Phoebe 62 feet into Tampa Bay on Jan. 8, 2015, and prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty. If convicted of first-degree murder, he’ll automatically go to prison for life.Jonchuck’s lawyers are using an insanity defense. They must convince jurors his mental illness was so severe that he didn’t know what he was doing.If his attorneys’ insanity defense works, he would be sent to a psychiatric hospital and it’s unlikely he would ever be released. To be eligible, he would have to prove he was no longer mentally ill or dangerous. Pinellas County Public Defender Bob Dillinger told the Tampa Bay Times he knows of no Florida case where a killer was found not guilty by reason of insanity of first-degree murder and eventually released.“He’ll be in a state prison for the rest of his life, or a state hospital for the rest of his life,” Dillinger said.Jonchuck did have a long history of mental problems before he and his daughter ever reached the Dick Misener Bridge - his family told the Times he had been involuntarily committed 27 times - and seemed to be having a breakdown.Twelve hours before Phoebe’s death, Jonchuck’s divorce lawyer, Genevieve Torres, called a state child protection hotline, fearing for the girl’s safety.Torres told the Department of Children and Families operator that Jonchuck had driven to three churches in his pajamas with Phoebe in tow that morning, called Torres “God” and asked her to translate his stepmother’s century-old Swedish Bible, which he carried and had become obsessed with. The attorney said Jonchuck was also paranoid that Phoebe wasn’t his child.“He’s calling the office every five minutes and saying these religious things and saying the child might not be his - it just really concerns me,” Torres told an operator. She added, “It’s all craziness and it doesn’t make any sense and he’s out of his mind.”Torres also told the operator, who was inexperienced, that the department had an open investigation after an earlier caller accused Jonchuck of violence, substance abuse, and inadequate supervision.But the operator thought the attorney was more worried about Jonchuck’s safety than the girl’s and did not report the call to authorities.Just after midnight the next day, Jonchuck’s PT Cruiser raced past officer William Vickers, who was heading home from his shift in his patrol car. He started following Jonchuck, but never got close enough to read the license plate and didn’t know Phoebe was inside.As they reached the bridge’s crest, Jonchuck stopped and got out. Vickers, fearing an ambush, stopped behind him, pulled his gun and yelled at Jonchuck to show his hands. He saw no weapon.Jonchuck yelled at the officer, “You have no free will.” He grabbed Phoebe from the back seat, held her over the side momentarily and then dropped her. Vickers thinks she screamed.Jonchuck drove off, but was soon arrested. Vickers scrambled down a ladder to a dock below the bridge, but couldn’t see Phoebe in the dark water. A marine rescue boat was summoned and her body was found hours later.In court Tuesday, Phoebe Jonchuck's grandmother wore bright pink and a butterfly necklace for the little girl who had called her MawMaw, the Tampa Bay Times reports.It was the first time she had seen her son in three years. She had reportedly agonized over how her son could kill his daughter.“How could he have done that to Phoebe?” she wondered. “And what made him do that?”Her testimony took only a few minutes as lawyers asked if Phoebe knew how to swim.“She liked to go swimming and everything,” Michele explained in a gravelly voice. “But she wanted you to hold her and she wouldn’t go without floaties or anything.”