Randle

INTRODUCTION

13 Plaintiff, an inmate in the Contra Costa County Jail who is proceeding without 14 representation by an attorney, filed this civil rights complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against three 15 attorneys who were successively appointed to represent him in his criminal proceedings in Contra 16 Costa County Superior Court (Defendants Anthony Guy Ashe, Lawrence Steven Strauss, and 17 Matthew Fregi), the “Contra Costa County Conflicts Panel” (“Conflicts Panel”), and the Conflicts Panel’s supervisor1 (ECF No. 1.) For the reasons explained below, the complaint is dismissed 19 because it does not state a claim that is capable of judicial review and determination.

BACKGROUND

21 Plaintiff alleges between January and November 2023, the Conflicts Panel Supervisor 22 appointed Defendants Ashe, Strauss, and Fregi to represent him at different times in his criminal proceedings. (ECF No. 1 at 9.) He alleges these attorneys did not provide him adequate 24 representation and were not qualified because they “never won a case with lying in wait,” a 25 26 1 Plaintiff only provides the supervisor’s first name, so the Court refers to her in this order as “the 27…