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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
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TENTH CIRCUIT 

WALTER JAY THOMAS, ) 

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Plaintiff-Appellant, ) 

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v. ) 

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BRUCE DANIELS, Executive Officer ) 

of South Point, Utah State Prison; ) 

JOHN POWERS, Captain of Oquirrhs ) 

III, IV & V, Utah State Prison; ) 

WEEKS, Lieutenant of Oquirrh V ) 

Annex, Utah State Prison; ) 

JOHN DOES 1-10, Utah State Prison ) 

Correctional Officer and/or ) 

Department of Corrections, ) 

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Defendants-Appellees. ) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

FEBO 5 1992 

ROBERT L. HOECKEE 

Clerk 

No. 91-4166 

(D . C. No. 90-CV-627-S) 

(D. Utah) 

Before LOGAN, BARRETT and EBEL, Circuit Judges. 

After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

has determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially 

assist the determination of this appeal . See Fed. R. App. P. 

34(a); 10th Cir. R. 34 . 1 . 9 . The case is therefore ordered submitted without oral argument. 

Plaintiff Walter Jay Thomas appeals the summary judgment 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall not 

be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, except 

for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of the case, 

res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Ci r. R. 36.3 . 

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entered against him on his complaint against state prison 

officials arising out of his having been placed in restrictive 

segregation on a temporary restriction order. The action was 

taken based on inmate complaints that plaintiff had sexually 

assaulted them. After ordering a Martinez report the district 

court entered summary judgment against plaintiff, adopting the 

magistrate judge's seventeen-page Report and Recommendation of 

August 14, 1991. On appeal plaintiff challenges the dismissal and 

the court's refusal to appoint counsel to assist him on his claim. 

An indigent in a civil case is not entitled as of right to 

court-appointed counsel, Long v. Shillinger, 927 F.2d 525, 527 

(10th Cir. 1991), and we can find no abuse of discretion in the 

court's denial here. 

Plaintiff does not controvert any of the significant facts 

set forth in the magistrate judge's report. We affirm the 

district court's judgment for substantially the reasons stated in 

the magistrate judge's report. 

In his appellate brief plaintiff appears to raise several 

issues not presented to the district court: insufficiency of the 

Utah state prisons' provision of legal services to inmates; an 

allegation concerning an attack upon plaintiff by a fellow inmate 

after the district court entered its order of dismissal; an equal 

protection claim that punishment imposed upon the inmate who 

attacked plaintiff was less severe than that imposed upon 

plaintiff with respect to the sexual harassment charges; and a 

vague claim that plaintiff's constitutional rights were violated 

because of the change in his classification level. We do not 

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consider these issues because they were not raised below. See 

Farmers Insurance Co. v. Hubbard, 869 F.2d 565, 570 (10th Cir. 

1989) . 

AFFIRMED. 

The mandate shall issue forthwith. 

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Entered for the Court 

James K. Logan 

Circuit Judge 

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