Turner

I. INTRODUCTION

Appellant, appearing in pro per, appeals from a cost award in the amount of $1,270 entered by the Alameda County Superior Court after appellant had voluntarily dismissed a 12-count action he had filed against respondents, the California Parole Advocacy Program (hereafter CPAP) and its Northern California Director, Andrew Walker. The action alleged that those respondents had inadequately represented him in a parole revocation hearing which was determined adversely to him. We find this appeal to be without merit and, indeed, bordering on the frivolous. We thus affirm the cost award order of the superior court.

II. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

In April 2011, appellant, at the time on parole for prior, albeit unstated, offenses, was staying in a motel in Hayward, California. Three agents of the agents from the California Department of Adult Parole Operations arrived at his room to, allegedly, perform a “parole sweep.” The agents allegedly found pornographic material on a

1 computer in his room, although appellant maintained that he had no knowledge of how that material got onto his computer. Nonetheless, he was detained on a parole revocation charge. Appellant…