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Nature of Suit Code: 555
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Prison Condition
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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\

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

Northern District of California

San Francisco Division

TIMOTHY FEAR,

Plaintiff,

v.

CDCR EMPLOYEES AT SAN QUENTIN; 

et al.,

Defendants.

_____________________________________/

No. 14-cv-5473 LB

ORDER OF DISMISSAL

[Re: ECF Nos. 25, 27, 29, 30]

Timothy Fear filed this pro se prisoner's civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and applied to

proceed in forma pauperis. Mr. Fear's original complaint alleged that he was being harassed by

prison officials and other prisoners. The court reviewed the complaint, found numerous problems

with it, and dismissed it with leave to file a second amended complaint. The court cautioned Mr.

Fear that "his second amended complaint will supersede existing pleadings and must be a complete

statement of his claims, except that he does not need to plead again any claim the court has

dismissed without leave to amend. See Lacey v. Maricopa County, 693 F.3d 896, 928 (9th Cir.

2012) (en banc)." (ECF No. 21 at 9.) 

Mr. Fear has filed a second amended complaint and a second amendment. (ECF Nos. 29 and

30.) The allegations in the second amended complaint and second amendment pertain to a device

Mr. Fear has written about in several filings. Mr. Fear alleges that the "CDCR has a 'secret' or better

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described unmentioned (because no one would think to ask) security system in all offices and cells. 

The features of this security unit are electrical in nature and embedded in the housing unit of light(s)

in offices and cells." (ECF No. 30 at 1.) The device allegedly is meant to be a non-lethal tool for

controlling inmates but correctional officers have learned how to make it lethal when "used on part

of anatomy that it was not designed for." (Id.) "The Green Wall C/O's use system to cause

aneurysm of artery in brain. This method is used on sleeping inmates." (ECF No. 29 at 2.) 

Correctional officers have used the "secret security system to attempt to kill" Mr. Fear, apparently at

Corcoran, Salinas Valley, CTF-Soledad, and the Correctional Health Care Facility in Stockton. (Id.) 

The device is more fully described in a recent "motion of information" from Mr. Fear. In that

motion, he writes that each light in each cell and office has "a unit that can send shaped electrical

charges into inmate during a hostage situation or other crisis situation." (ECF No. 28 at 3.) Rogue

correctional officers have used the device to send a "power stream" at "an artery located in back of

brain. This artery can be accessed through soft-spot in skull w/ power stream of electricity (method

painless - artery has no nerves) that hits inmate (sleeping on side/stomach) 3-5 second blast/hit of

electricity on artery degrades artery in 3-40 day. Aneurysm occurs. The aneurysm is ruled

natural/unsuspicious death." (Id. at 3-4 (errors in source); see also ECF No. 26 at 3-4 (diagrams of

system in operation).) The power stream of electricity allegedly was used on Mr. Fear and "clipped"

his artery while he was sleeping." (ECF No. 28 at 5.)

The in forma pauperis statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1915, and the prisoner litigation screening statute, 28

U.S.C. § 1915A, accord judges "not only the authority to dismiss a claim based on an indisputably

meritless legal theory, but also the unusual power to pierce the veil of the complaint's factual

allegations and dismiss those claims whose factual contentions are clearly baseless." Denton v.

Hernandez, 504 U.S. 25, 32 (1992) (quoting Neitzke v. Williams, 490 U.S. 319, 327 (1989)). 

"Examples of the latter class are claims describing fantastic or delusional scenarios, claims with

which federal district judges are all too familiar." Neitzke, 490 U.S. at 328; see also Andrews v.

King, 398 F.3d 1118 (9th Cir. 2005) (a case "is frivolous if it is 'of little weight or importance:

having no basis in law or fact.'"). 

Mr. Fear's second amended complaint, as amended, alleges the sort of fantastic or delusional

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scenario contemplated in Neitzke. The secret device Mr. Fear describes – one that is hidden from

view in the light fixtures, used on inmates only when they cannot observe its use, shooting energy

pulses into the base of their skulls, and causing injuries not felt and not visible to the naked eye –

coupled with the allegation that the device is being used by multiple officials at multiple prisons in

an effort to kill him is not a part of reality. The court need not accept as true these clearly baseless

factual contentions. See Neitzke, 490 U.S. at 327-28. The second amended complaint, as

amended, is delusional and therefore is DISMISSED as factually frivolous. See id.

The court denies Mr. Fear's several miscellaneous motions. Mr. Fear's motion for a further

extension of the deadline to file his second amended complaint is DENIED as unnecessary because

he was able to file a second amended complaint and second amendment before the deadline arrived. 

(ECF No. 25.) Mr. Fear's motions for the court to investigate his claims and to subpoena Warden

Sherman to answer questions about the secret device are DENIED; having determined that Mr.

Fear's claims are delusional, the court will not permit discovery on those claims. (ECF Nos. 27 and

30.) 

The clerk shall close the file.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 1, 2015 _______________________________

LAUREL BEELER

United States Magistrate Judge

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