Does the Plaintiff have a right to appointed counsel in this action?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Cruz v. Gomez, 1:15-cv-00859-GSA-PC (E.D. Cal. 2015):
Plaintiff requests court-appointed counsel to conduct an investigation and, if appropriate, to file a motion for DNA testing. Plaintiff does not have a constitutional right to appointed counsel in this action, Rand v. Rowland, 113 F.3d 1520, 1525 (9th Cir. 1997), and
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