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- ilcd;;1:17-cv-01292_de71 RegisterActionDate "2021-01-19" @default.
- ilcd;;1:17-cv-01292_de71 RegisterActionDescriptionText "TEXT ORDER entered by Judge Joe Billy McDade on 1/19/2021. Plaintiff files 47 , a motion for recruitment of pro bono counsel for representation at the scheduled trial. Plaintiff asserts that he needs counsel so he may call fellow inmates as witnesses and locate any potential witnesses who might have been released. He also states that he currently does not have access to the prison law library so as to review pattern jury instructions. Here, Plaintiff is proceeding on an Eighth Amendment excessive force claim against a single Defendant. "Whether to recruit an attorney is a difficult decision: Almost everyone would benefit from having a lawyer, but there are too many indigent litigants and too few lawyers willing and able to volunteer for these cases. District courts are thus placed in the unenviable position of identifying, among a sea of people lacking counsel, those who need counsel the most." Olson v. Morgan, 750 F.3d 708, 711 (7th Cir. 2014). While Plaintiff has not represented himself at trial before, his is not a complex case. He claims that he was subjected to excessive force, an event of which he would have direct and personal knowledge. Plaintiff is, further, advised that he may identify those inmate witnesses whom he wishes to testify in the proposed final pretrial order. The Court will issue writs for the inmates' video appearance at trial. Plaintiff has ably represented himself so far and appears competent to proceed on his own. See Pruitt v. Mote, 503 F.3d 647, 655 (7th Cir.2007). 47 is DENIED. (SAG, ilcd) (Entered: 01/19/2021)" @default.
- ilcd;;1:17-cv-01292_de71 AdministrativeID "None" @default.
- ilcd;;1:17-cv-01292_de71 hasReferenceToOtherEntry ilcd;;1:17-cv-01292_de70 @default.