Loll

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

10 11 RENE LUNA, JR., Case No. 1:21-cv-01310-EPG (PC) 12 Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR APPOINTMENT OF PRO BONO v. COUNSEL, WITHOUT PREJUDICE 14 LOLL, et al., (ECF No. 3)

Defendants.

17 Rene Luna, Jr. (“Plaintiff”), is a prisoner proceeding pro se in this civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. On August 30, 2021, Plaintiff filed a motion for appointment of pro bono counsel. (ECF No. 3). Plaintiff states that he was a victim of police brutality. Plaintiff asks for counsel because is an indigent inmate with limited resources and supplies. Plaintiff alleges that, instead of providing an enhanced form of protection during the pandemic, officers committed acts in violation of “COVID-19 Hate Crime Act of 2021.” (Id. at 1). Plaintiff does not have a constitutional right to appointed counsel in this action, Rand v. Rowland, 113 F.3d 1520, 1525 (9th Cir. 1997), withdrawn in part on other grounds, 154 F.3d…