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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

For the Northern District of California

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DAN L. JEFFERSON, 

Petitioner,

 v.

FOLSOM STATE PRISON,

Respondent. /

No. C 08-2790 PJH (PR)

ORDER OF TRANSFER

This is a habeas case filed pro se by a state prisoner. Petitioner seeks to challenge a

conviction obtained in the Superior Court in and for Sacramento County. Sacramento

County is in the venue of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of

California. Petitioner is incarcerated at Folsom State Prison, which also is in the Eastern 

District. 

Venue for a habeas action is proper in either the district of confinement or the district

of conviction, 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d); this district is neither. Because petitions challenging a

conviction are preferably heard in the district of conviction, Habeas L.R. 2254-3(a); Laue v.

Nelson, 279 F. Supp. 265, 266 (N.D. Cal. 1968), and petitioner was convicted in a county in

the Eastern District, this case is TRANSFERRED to the United States District Court for the

Eastern District of California. See 28 U.S.C. § 1406(a); Habeas L.R. 2254-3(b). 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 16, 2008. 

 PHYLLIS J. HAMILTON

United States District Judge

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