Pollard

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 CORKEY DENNIS OGLE, Case No.: 3:20-cv-1115-LAB(KSC)

12 Petitioner, ORDER DENYING PETITIONER'S v. MOTION FOR APPOINTMENT OF

COUNSEL

MARCUS POLLARD,

Respondent. [Doc. No. 19]

17 18 19 Petitioner Corkey Dennis Ogle, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C § 2254. Before the Court is petitioner’s request for appointment of counsel. For the reasons outlined more fully below, the Court finds that petitioner’s Motion for Appointment of Counsel must be denied. Background Petitioner is currently serving a seven-year to life sentence for murder, robbery, kidnapping, and assault with a deadly weapon. [Doc. No. 4, at p. 1.] He has been in prison approximately 42 years and is 71 years old. [Doc. No. 4, at pp. 1, 17.] Petitioner challenges a September 4, 2019 decision denying him parole under California’s…