Avalos

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

9 MARQUELL SMITH, Case No.: 3:20-cv-01534-JAH-KSC Booking No. 20915351,

ORDER:

Plaintiff,

vs. 1) GRANTING MOTION TO

PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS

13 [ECF No. 2]; AVALOS; S. JACKSON; WILLIAM

GORE; FINLEY; SERGEANT 2) DENYING MOTION TO

15 KIMBERLY; JOHN/JANE DOE; APPOINT COUNSEL [ECF No. 3]; LIEUTENANT CARDENAS;

SERGEANT WARD, AND

17 Defendants. 2) DISMISSING COMPLAINT FOR

FAILING TO STATE A CLAIM

19 PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2) & 28 U.S.C. § 1915A(b)

21 Marquell Smith (“Plaintiff”), a state inmate temporarily housed in the Vista 22 Detention Facility (“VDF”) in San Diego, California and proceeding pro se, has filed a 23 civil rights complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. (See Compl., ECF No. 1). 24 Plaintiff did not prepay the civil filing fee required by 28 U.S.C. § 1914(a) when he 25 filed his Complaint; instead, he filed a…