Update: A comment from a spokesperson for Illinois Attorney General Lisa. M. Madigan was added to the story.An inmate in Illinois should have been appointed a lawyer to represent him in his civil case, an unanimous federal appeals court ruled last week.The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found a trial judge abused her discretion when she denied Fredrick Walker’s sixth request for pro bono counsel before his case was set to go to a jury trial by video conference.Walker sought pro bono counsel in his civil case …