(PC) Brooks v. North Kern State Prison
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 DAVION LEMAR BROOKS, Case No. 1:23-cv-01751-BAM (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR
APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL
v. (ECF No. 9) NORTH KERN STATE PRISON, et al., Defendants. 12 Plaintiff Davion Lemar Brooks (“Plaintiff”) is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff’s complaint has not yet been screened. Currently before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion for appointment of counsel, filed March 14, 2024. (ECF No. 9.) Plaintiff requests that the Court help him get an attorney, because he cannot afford one. Plaintiff states that once he has an attorney he can submit his case documents and the evidence he has on the defendants. (Id.) Plaintiff is informed that he does not have a constitutional right to appointed counsel in this action, Rand v. Rowland, 113 F.3d 1520, 1525 (9th Cir. 1997), rev’d in part on other grounds, 154 F.3d 952, 954 n.1 (9th Cir. 1998), and the…