pool attorney does not act under color of state law). Therefore, because it appears that Defendants Black and Mignella were not acting under color of state law, Plaintiffs § 1983 claims against them must be dismissed with prejudice. 2. Sections 1985 and 1986 Plaintiff further alleges Defendants Black and Mignella conspired with Defendants Marino and Armstrong, and others to deprive him of his right to the PCR counsel of his choice in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment. (Docket Entry 3 ¶ 70). Prisoners do not have a federal constitutional right to counsel when mounting collateral attacks upon their convictions. See Pennsylvania v. Finley, 481 U.S. 551, 555, 107 S.Ct. 1990, 95 L.Ed.2d 539 (1987); Ross v. Moffitt, 417 U.S. 600, 616, 94 S.Ct. 2437, 41 L.Ed.2d 341 (1974) (<HOLDING>); Johnson v. Avery, 393 U.S. 483, 488, 89 S.Ct.
holding the sixth amendment applicable to the states through the fourteenth amendment holding fourteenth amendment does not require states to provide counsel in state discretionary appeals holding that fourteenth amendment only applies to state action holding that the fourteenth amendment incorporated the sixth amendment right to counsel holding that the fourteenth amendment only applies to state action