(PC) Brooks v. North Kern State Prison

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 DAVION LEMAR BROOKS, Case No. 1:23-cv-01751-BAM (PC) 8 Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR

APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL

9 v. (ECF No. 9) 10 NORTH KERN STATE PRISON, et al., 11 Defendants. 12 13 Plaintiff Davion Lemar Brooks (“Plaintiff”) is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in 14 forma pauperis in this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff’s complaint has 15 not yet been screened. 16 Currently before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion for appointment of counsel, filed March 17 14, 2024. (ECF No. 9.) Plaintiff requests that the Court help him get an attorney, because he 18 cannot afford one. Plaintiff states that once he has an attorney he can submit his case documents 19 and the evidence he has on the defendants. (Id.) 20 Plaintiff is informed that he does not have a constitutional right to appointed counsel in 21 this action, Rand v. Rowland, 113 F.3d 1520, 1525 (9th Cir. 1997), rev’d in part on other 22 grounds, 154 F.3d 952, 954 n.1 (9th Cir. 1998), and the…