163891P.pdf   09/05/2018  Patric Patterson  v.  Kennie Bolden
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  16-3891
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Pine Bluff   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Arnold and Grasz, Circuit Judges] 
   Prisoner case - Prisoner Civil Rights. In action alleging defendants 
   failed to protect plaintiff from an attack by a fellow inmate, the 
   district court did not abuse its discretion by denying plaintiff's motion 
   for appointment of counsel; insofar as plaintiff alleges that defendants 
   failed to protect him from a specific threat posed by the inmate who 
   attacked him, plaintiff's own inability to anticipate the surprise attack 
   and his own decision not to report an altercation with that inmate on the 
   previous day defeat liability; with respect to plaintiff's claim that 
   defendants failed to protect him from a general risk of harm, the record 
   fails to show that any of the defendants were subjectively aware of, or 
   deliberately indifferent to, a substantial risk of harm to inmate safety; 
   as a result the district court did not err in granting defendants summary 
   judgment as plaintiff failed to raise a genuine issue of material fact as 
   to whether the defendants were deliberately indifferent to a general risk 
   of harm to inmates in the barracks in question. Judge Grasz, concurring in 
   part and dissenting in part.