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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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 Petitioner was convicted in 1996. A habeas petition in the Central District was already

denied for this same conviction and the Ninth Circuit denied a certificate of appealability. See

Young v. Sullivan, 2:04-cv-4968 DT-CT. It appears that this petition is successive.

United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

EUREKA DIVISION

VINCENT LYNDEN YOUNG,

Petitioner,

 vs.

WARDEN RANDY GROUNDS,

Respondent. /

No. C 15-0872 NJV (PR)

ORDER OF TRANSFER

This is a habeas corpus petition filed pro se by a state prisoner. Petitioner seeks to

challenge a conviction obtained in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Los Angeles

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

California. Petitioner is incarcerated in this 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). 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 the Central District, this

case is TRANSFERRED to the United States District Court for the Central District of

California. See 28 U.S.C. § 1406(a); Habeas L.R. 2254-3(b).1

 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 23, 2015. 

NANDOR J. VADAS

United States Magistrate Judge

Case 1:15-cv-00872-NJV Document 10 Filed 04/23/15 Page 1 of 2
United States District Court

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

EUREKA DIVISION

VINCENT LYNDEN YOUNG, No. 1:15-CV-0872 NJV 

Petitioner,

v. CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

WARDEN RANDY GROUNDS,

Respondent.

___________________________________/

I, the undersigned, hereby certify that on April 23, 2015, I SERVED a true and correct copy

of the attached, by placing said copy in a postage paid envelope addressed to the person(s) listed

below, by depositing said envelope in the U.S. Mail.

Vincent Lynden Young 

K49033 

Salinas Valley State Prison 

B1-147 

P.O. Box 1050 

Soledad, CA 93960

 ____________________________________

 Linn Van Meter

 Administrative Law Clerk to

 the Honorable Nandor J. Vadas

Case 1:15-cv-00872-NJV Document 10 Filed 04/23/15 Page 2 of 2