Attorneys focused on knowledge, or lack thereof, on Thursday during closing arguments of a Gainesville woman on trial in connection with her daughter’s death. Public defenders Travis A. Williams and Rob McNeill denied that Deanna Renee Kipp knew Stephen Clark West killed her daughter Kaylee Kipp and then conspired with him in a cover-up, as they said the prosecution implied during the past two weeks. Deanna Kipp faces charges of one count of malice murder, four counts of felony murder, four counts of cruelty to a child in the first degree, two counts of providing false statements to police and one count each of aggravated assault, cruelty to a child in the second degree and concealing the death of another.
Attorneys make closing arguments in Kipp trial
Arguments center on 911 call