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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

10 11 EMMETT JAMES HARRIS, Case No. 1:20-cv-01521-NONE-EPG (PC) 12 Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL, v. WITHOUT PREJUDICE 14 METTS, (ECF No. 24)

Defendant.

17 Emmett James Harris (“Plaintiff”) is a state prisoner proceeding pro se in this civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. On April 12, 2021, Plaintiff filed a motion for appointment of pro bono counsel. (ECF No. 24). Plaintiff asks for appointed counsel because: his “prisoner helper” who helped draft his complaint has been transferred; he has “absolutely no education” and “cannot read except for the basic common words,” rendering him “functional[ly] illiterate;” his case has merit as it has proceeded past screening; the law is complicated; and Plaintiff cannot articulate claims or prepare and present legal documents. (Id. at 2-3). Plaintiff’s motion was co-signed by Leon Davis, a “Temporary Assistant.” (Id. at 3). Plaintiff also argues…