Allen Hodge v. Police Officers: Colon, 623 and Repuerto, 145

How courts have described this case

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• holding that in deciding whether to request an attorney to represent an indigent plaintiff they “should first determine whether the indigent’s position was likely to be of substance”
• finding that, as a threshold matter, “counsel is ... unwarranted where the indigent’s chances of success [on the merits] are extremely slim”
• stating that a “threshold requirement” to appoint counsel is that “the indigent’s position [must] seem[ ] likely to be of substance”
• stating that “the district judge should first determine whether that indigent's position seems likely to be of substance”
• explaining that the district court should consider factors such as difficulty and complexity only “[i]f the claim meets [the] threshold requirement” that “the indigent’s position seems likely to be of substance”
• explaining that a court should consider indigent’s “ability to investigate the crucial facts,” “the indigent’s ability to present the case,” and whether counsel would “be more likely to lead to a just determination

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).