ESTATE OF COLE BY PARDUE v. Fromm

ENTRY ON DEFENDANTS’ MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

HAMILTON, District Judge.

The estate of Max G. Cole and Mr. Cole’s mother brought this action against a doctor and several other staff at Wishard Memorial Hospital in Indianapolis. Cole was a pretrial detainee in the Marion County jail who was transferred to Wishard. He was classified as a “potential suicide,” but not a “high risk suicide” patient. He managed to obtain a plastic bag and committed suicide by suffocation. The plaintiffs assert that the defendants acted under color of state law and were deliberately indifferent to the risk that…