Attorneys for former Govs. Jack Markell and Ruth Ann Minner this week sought to avert discovery in a case brought by the family of a correction officer killed in the Feb. 1 takeover of a Smyrna prison, stressing precedent from a similar case over the rape more than a decade ago of a counselor at the same jail.
The 2005 ruling has resurfaced at the center of a wrongful death case accusing Minner, Markell and other state officials of failing to address critical security concerns at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center’s Building C, leading to the death of Lt. Steven Floyd Sr. earlier this year.
