Jacome

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 ALEXDER JACOME, Case No.: 18cv10-GPC-MDD

Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF'S v. MOTION TO APPOINT COUNSEL

DIMITRIS VLAHAKIS, et al., [ECF No. 82] Defendants. 14 15 Plaintiff Alexander Jacome (“Plaintiff”), a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis, brought this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Defendants Ryan Smith, Kyle McGarvey, Mathew Seitz, James Parent, Habib Choufani, Joshua Linthicum, and Joseph Pirri (collectively, “Defendants”). Plaintiff now moves the Court to appoint counsel because “he is having major difficulty keeping up with his” responsibilities in this action. (ECF No. 82 at 1). Plaintiff contends that Sheriff’s Deputies are retaliating against him for filing this lawsuit. (See id. at 1-2). Plaintiff states that “[a] lot of his legal research request[s] are purposely and obviously incomplete[,] missing a major amount of pertinent pages to this and other 26 …