gipe v. state

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL DIVISION Rutland Unit Docket No. 515-7-11 Rdev James Gipe, as Administrator of the Estate of Ashley Ellis, Plaintiff v. FILED State of Vermont, Vermont Department ocT 02 2014 of Corrections, et al., VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT Defendants SAN DECISION _ Defendants’ Partial Motions for Summary Judgment Ashley Ellis’s incarceration for a misdemeanor at the Northwest State Correctional Facility in Swanton, Vermont began on August 14, 2009. At the time, she weighed about 90 pounds and looked emaciated. She had symptoms of hypokalemia, meaning a dangerously low…