Luevanos

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JON-ERIK ROOSEVELT BOLDS, JR., No. 1:21-cv-01668-NODJ-SAB (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S SECOND

MOTION FOR APPOINTMENT OF

v. COUNSEL, WITHOUT PREJUDICE LUEVANOS, et al.,, (ECF No. 77) Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Currently before the Court is Plaintiff’s second motion for appointment of counsel, filed February 6, 2024. Plaintiff seeks appointment of counsel due indigency, incarceration, limited knowledge of the law, limited access to the law library, and potential conflicting testimony. There is no constitutional right to appointed counsel in this action, Rand v. Rowland, 113 F.3d 1520, 1525 (9th Cir. 1997), and the Court cannot require any attorney to represent plaintiff pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(1). Mallard v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, 490 U.S. 296,…