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Trial starts for woman accused of texting when UW student was hit, killed

Stephanie Kanoff?s lawyer and Dane County prosecutors agreed that she made calls and sent text messages on her cellphone as she drove home from work on Oct. 24, 2010. But as jurors heard during opening statements in Kanoff?s negligent homicide trial, they differ on whether she was working on one last text message when she struck and killed UW-Madison student Dylan Ellefson, 21, whose car was disabled in the 1400 block of East Johnson Street.