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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

MELECIO M. CARDONA, Civil No. 08cv0437-LAB (WMc)

Petitioner,

ORDER DISMISSING CASE 

v. WITHOUT PREJUDICE

J. WALKER, Warden,

Respondent.

Petitioner, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed a Petition for a Writ of Habeas

Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, but has failed to pay the $5.00 filing fee and has failed to

move to proceed in forma pauperis. Because this Court cannot proceed until Petitioner has either

paid the $5.00 filing fee or qualified to proceed in forma pauperis, the Court DISMISSES the

case without prejudice. See Rule 3(a), 28 U.S.C. foll. § 2254. 

In addition, Petitioner has failed to invoke the jurisdiction of this Court. A petition for

a writ of habeas corpus may be filed in the United States District Court of 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 here attacks a conviction suffered in the Ventura County Superior Court.

(Pet. at 1.) That court is 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 the California State Prison - Sacramento. That prison is located in

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Sacramento County, California, within the jurisdictional boundaries of the United States District

Court for the Eastern District of California. See 28 U.S.C. § 84(d). Jurisdiction over this

Petition thus exists in the Central District of California, Western Division, and in the Eastern

District of California, and not in this Court. See 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d). 

Because Petitioner has failed to satisfy the filing fee requirement and has failed to invoke

this Court’s jurisdiction, the Petition is DISMISSED without prejudice to proceed with his

claims in the Central District of California, Western Division, or the Eastern District of

California.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: March 13, 2008

HONORABLE LARRY ALAN BURNS

United States District Judge

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