Cecil Mills called Wednesday Sophia’s Day In Court, the day a Greene County Criminal Court jury found her father guilty of her Murder on February 2, 2020.
In his closing arguments before the jury began deliberations, Assistant District Attorney Mills told them he felt they already knew in their heart what the verdict should be in the death of Sophia Flora Fields.
Mills said the evidence pointed to one person, and denied investigators were in a rush to judgement.
Mills reminder jurors before Sophia could ever walk her first step, Lavelle Scott took her last breath.
Assistant DA Ritchie Collins had told jurors on the opening day of the trial on Monday, they were going to see what happens when you mix meth with the care of a child. Wednesday, Collins said he did not believe Lavelle Scott would have hurt his daughter had he not been on meth. He called the actions of Lavelle Scott a textbook definition of neglect. As for the defense claim it was the infants grandmother Diana Scott who was guilty of the death, Lavelle he said, never blamed her or anyone else for the death.
Defense Attorney T. Hunter Shelton, arguing the state had not proven its case beyond a reasonable doubt, continued during closing arguments to say Diana was the guilty party. Shelton even argued Lavelle Scott took the fall for his mother in the death, also arguing investigators zeroed in on Lavelle, taking the low hanging fruit and never reaching a branch higher by considering other possible suspects.
