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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

HERMINIO AGUILAR-CONTRERAS,

JR.,

Civil No. 06cv1733-BTM (BLM)

Petitioner, ORDER TRANSFERRING ACTION

TO UNITED STATES DISTRICT

COURT FOR THE CENTRAL

DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA,

EASTERN DIVISION

vs.

V. M. ALMEGER, 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. Petitioner challenges his conviction in the Riverside

County Superior Court. In accordance with the practice of district courts in California, the Court

transfers the Petition to the United States District Court for the Central District of California,

Eastern Division. 

A petition for 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 Riverside

County Superior Court. (Pet. at 1.) That court is located in Riverside County, which is within

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

California, Eastern Division. See 28 U.S.C. § 84(c)(1). Petitioner is presently confined at

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Centinela State Prison in Imperial, California. That prison is located in Imperial County, which

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

District of California. See 28 U.S.C. § 84(d). Jurisdiction over this Petition thus exists in the

Central District, Eastern Division, and in the Southern District. See 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d). 

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

challenging a state conviction to the district in which a petitioner was convicted. Any and all

records, witnesses and evidence necessary for the resolution of a petitioner’s contentions are

more readily available in that district. See Braden, 410 U.S. at 497, 499 n.15; Laue v. Nelson,

279 F. Supp. 265, 266 (N.D. Cal. 1968). In this case, that district is the Central District of

California, Eastern Division. 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, Eastern 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.

DATED: October 25, 2006

Hon. Barry Ted Moskowitz

United States District Judge

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