Supreme Court of Texas

An indigent inmate does not have a right to appointed counsel in a civil case merely because the inmate's suit is against an employee of the prison in which the inmate is incarcerated.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/27/2003
• Published 03/27/2003

Judges

• Justice ENOCH delivered the opinion of the Court.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William Rich Thompson, II, Atty. Gen., Austin, John Cornyn, Washington, DC, Howard G. Baldwin, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Michael T. McCaul, Executive Asst. Atty. Gen., Julie Caruthers Parsley, Office of the Solicitor Gen., Ralph C. Longmire, Office of the Atty. Gen., Austin, for Petitioner., James Tolbert, pro se.