Stevenson

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

. SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA .

|| STEVIE J. STEVENSON, Case No.: 3:16-cv-3079-TWR-RBM _— Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR 13 || V. APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL || JEFFREY BEARD, Ph.D., et al, □ is Defendants.| [Doc. 131] . I. INTRODUCTION ©

Stevie J. Stevenson (“Plaintiff”), a prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis, 19 || filed a “Motion for Appointment of Counsel or Appointment of Investigator to Assist ||Plaintiff....” (Doc. 131.) Liberally construing this filing, it is a Motion for Appointment 21 || of Counsel (“Motion”). (See Doc. 131 at 1, 6-7); see Blaisdell v. Frappiea, 729 F.3d 1237, 22 || 1241 (9th Cir. 2013) (courts liberally construe pro se litigants? filings, relieving them from strict application of procedural rules and demands). For the…