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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 28:1651 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IVORY JOE VALENTINE,

Petitioner,

 v.

SPEARMAN, Warden,

Respondent.

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No. C 15-5933 WHA (PR) 

ORDER OF TRANSFER

(Dkt. No. 2, 4)

Petitioner is a state prisoner currently incarcerated at the California Training Facility in

Soledad, California. He has filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. 2254

challenging a conviction and sentence obtained in 1986 in Orange County Superior Court.

A petition for a writ of habeas corpus made by a person in custody under the judgment

and sentence of a state court of a state which contains two or more federal judicial districts may

be filed in either the district of confinement or the district of conviction. See 28 U.S.C. §

2241(d). Each of such districts shall have concurrent jurisdiction to entertain the petition;

however, the district court for the district where the petition is filed may transfer the petition to

the other district in the furtherance of justice. See id. Federal courts in California traditionally

have chosen to hear petitions challenging a conviction or sentence in the district of conviction. 

See Dannenberg v. Ingle, 831 F. Supp. 767, 768 (N.D. Cal. 1993); Laue v. Nelson, 279 F. Supp.

265, 266 (N.D. Cal. 1968).

Petitioner challenges a judgment from Orange County, which lies within the venue of

the Central District of California. Accordingly, in the interest of justice, and pursuant to 28

U.S.C. § 1406(a), this action is TRANSFERRED to the United States District Court for the

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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Central District of California. In light of the transfer, this Court will not resolve whether

petitioner may proceed in forma pauperis. 

The clerk shall transfer this matter forthwith and terminate docket numbers 2 and 4 from

this court’s docket.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 31 , 2016. 

WILLIAM ALSUP

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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United States District Court 

Northern District of Californi

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

IVORY JOE VALENTINE, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

MARION SPEARMAN, 

Defendant. 

Case No. 3:15-cv-05993-WHA 

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 

I, the undersigned, hereby certify that I am an employee in the Office of the Clerk, U.S. 

District Court, Northern District of California. 

That on 2/2/2016, I SERVED a true and correct copy(ies) of the attached, by placing said 

copy(ies) in a postage paid envelope addressed to the person(s) hereinafter listed, by depositing 

said envelope in the U.S. Mail, or by placing said copy(ies) into an inter-office delivery receptacle 

located in the Clerk's office. 

Ivory Joe Valentine ID: D-42915

CTF Soledad

P O Box 689 

Soledad, CA 93960 

Dated: 2/2/2016 

Susan Y. Soong 

Clerk, United States District Court 

By:________________________ 

Dawn Logan, Deputy Clerk to the 

Honorable WILLIAM ALSUP 

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