(PC) Harris v. Dr. Jhamou

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 7 ANTOINE W. HARRIS, Case No. 1:19-cv-01408-SAB (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING, WITHOUT PREJUDICE,

PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR

v. APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL DR. JHAMOU, et al., (ECF No. 3) Defendants. 13 Plaintiff Antoine W. Harris is a former state prisoner proceeding pro se in this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Currently before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion for appointment of counsel, filed on October 7, 2019. (ECF No. 3.) Plaintiff asserts that the Court should appoint counsel to represent him in this case because he is unable to afford to hire counsel, because counsel would better enable him to present evidence and cross-examine witnesses at any trial in this case, and because he has no access to a law library, since the Washoe County Jail, where he is currently incarcerated has no law library at all, and he has limited knowledge of the law. Plaintiff does not have a constitutional right to…