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Kipp v. State

The trial court erred in sentencing the defendant on each of four felony murder counts related to the death of her 18-month-old daughter, since the prohibition against double jeopardy does not permit a defendant to be punished on multiple murder counts for a single homicide.

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Deanna Renee Kipp “Kipp” appeals her convictions and sentences for four counts of felony murder, one count of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of cruelty to children in the first degree, one count of concealing the death of another, and two counts of making false statements in connection with the abuse and resulting death of her 18-month-old daughter, Kaylee Kipp, and the abuse of her two other minor daughters, S.K. and A.K. She contends that the jury’s verdicts of felony murder and its verdict of involuntary manslaughter were mutually exclusive, and that the trial court erred in its imposition of sentences. Finding the challenge of mutually exclusive verdicts to be without merit, but that there was error in the sentencing, the judgments of convictions are affirmed and the case is remanded to the trial court for re-sentencing.1

The evidence construed in favor of the verdicts showed the following. Emergency responders entered Kipp’s apartment around 12:30 p.m. on June 12, 2011, and found no adults but only the body of the deceased toddler Kaylee lying in her crib. She was cold to the touch, and in full rigor mortis. Later, another responder encountered Kipp in the apartment, and she told him that she had checked on Kaylee around 8:00-9:00 a.m., and that Kaylee looked up at her from her crib, and went back to sleep. Kipp did not ask any questions about Kaylee’s condition and was not visibly upset.

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