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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 28:2254 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (State)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

WARREN DAVIS,

Petitioner,

v.

COVELLO, Warden

Respondent.

Case No.: 19cv1487 GPC (BGS)

ORDER TRANSFERRING ACTION 

TO UNITED STATES DISTRICT 

COURT FOR THE CENTRAL 

DISTRICT, WESTERN DIVISION

Petitioner, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed a petition for writ habeas 

corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C.A. § 2254. Upon reviewing the petition, the Court finds that 

this case should be transferred in the interest of justice. 

A petition for writ of habeas corpus may be filed in the United States District Court 

of either the judicial district in which the petitioner is presently confined or the judicial 

district in which he was convicted and sentenced. See 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d); Braden v. 

30th Judicial Circuit Court, 410 U.S. 484, 497 (1973). Petitioner’s state court conviction 

occurred in Los Angeles County Superior Court, which is located within the 

jurisdictional boundaries of the United States District Court for the Central District of 

California, Western Division. See 28 U.S.C. § 84(c)(2). Petitioner is presently confined 

at R.J. Donovan Correctional Facility, located in San Diego County, which is within the 

jurisdictional boundaries of the United States District Court for the Southern District of 

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California. 28 U.S.C. § 84(d). Thus, jurisdiction exists in both the Central and Southern 

Districts.

When a habeas petitioner is challenging a judgment of conviction, the district court 

of the district in which the judgment of conviction was entered is a more convenient 

forum because of the accessibility of evidence, records and witnesses. Thus, it is 

generally the practice of the district courts in California to transfer habeas actions 

questioning judgments of conviction to the district in which the judgment was entered. 

Any and all records, witnesses and evidence necessary for the resolution of Petitioner’s 

contentions are available in Los Angeles County. See Braden, 410 U.S. at 497, 499 n.15 

(stating that a court can, of course, transfer habeas cases to the district of conviction 

which is ordinarily a more convenient forum); Laue v. Nelson, 279 F. Supp. 265, 266 

(N.D. Cal. 1968). 

Therefore, in the furtherance of justice, IT IS ORDERED that the Clerk of this 

Court transfer this matter to the United States District Court for the Central District of 

California, Western Division. See 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d). IT IS FURTHER ORDERED

that the Clerk of this Court serve a copy of this Order upon Petitioner and upon the 

California Attorney General.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 19, 2019

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