Ronald Phillips v. County of Los Angeles

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 RONALD PHILLIPS, ) Case No. CV 20-1858-FMO (JPR) ) 11 Plaintiff, ) ORDER DISMISSING COMPLAINT WITH ) LEAVE TO AMEND 12 v. ) ) 13 COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES et ) al., ) 14 ) Defendants. ) 15 ) On February 26, 2020, Plaintiff, a state inmate proceeding pro se, filed a civil-rights action against Los Angeles County and the Los Angeles County Public Defender in their official capacity and Robert G. Noguchi, a deputy public defender, and Does in their individual and official capacities, seeking declaratory relief, compensatory and punitive damages, and costs. (Compl. at 3, 6.) He was subsequently granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis. Plaintiff alleges “malpractice” and “negligence” by Noguchi at his 2011 sentencing, resulting in a sentence of 32 months when 26 1 Because the Complaint is not consecutively paginated, the Court uses the pagination generated by its Case Management/ 28 Electronic Case Filing system. 1 it should have been 16. …