Pfeiffer
(PC) Jones v. Pfeiffer
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 DYRELL WAYNE JONES, Case No. 1:19-cv-00396-DAD-JDP
Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR
APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL
v. ECF No. 24 M. PITCHFORD, et al.,
ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S
Defendants. MISCELLANEOUS MOTION
ECF No.
17 Plaintiff Dyrell Wayne Jones is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel in this civil rights action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. On September 3, 2019, Jones filed a motion requesting appointed of counsel. ECF No. 24. Jones submits that he is unable to afford counsel, in administrative segregation, on dialysis, and has only limited access to a limited law library. Id. Jones does not have a constitutional right to appointed counsel in this action, see Rand v. Rowland, 113 F.3d 1520, 1525 (9th Cir. 1997), withdrawn in part on other grounds on reh’g en banc, 154 F.3d 952 (9th Cir. 1998), and the court lacks the authority to require an attorney to represent…