Adams

I. BACKGROUND

23 On December 3, 2020, Plaintiff filed a pro se civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 24 against Defendants Santa Cruz Sheriff Jim Hart; Santa Cruz Deputy Sheriffs Daren Kerr, Peter 25 Hansen, and Yanez; Santa Cruz District Attorney Jeff Rosell; Santa Cruz Assistant District 26 Attorney Abel C.K. Hung; Mark Benjamin Briscoe, Heather Ruth Rogers, Zachariah 27 Schwarzbach, John Minsloff, and Biggam Christensen & Minsloff, “Public Pretenders Office”; and Charles Luke Stevens, “Court appointed Pretender.” ECF No. 1. Plaintiff’s initial complaint is difficult to understand, but Plaintiff’s initial complaint appears to be seeking monetary damages for alleged violations of his rights during his criminal prosecutions. See ECF No. 1 at 6 (alleging that, in over 9 years of criminal cases, Plaintiff was denied his “Due Process Rights, Constitutional Rights, Bradys Rights, Marsden Rights, Victims Rights, Rights to legal readdress”); id. at 7 (seeking monetary damages against the “Police, Prosecutor, Public Pretenders, Judges, and courtroom personnel”). In addition, Plaintiff filed a motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis …