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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

JEFFREY THOMAS,

Petitioner,

 v.

ROBERT AYERS, JR., Warden,

Respondent. /

No. C 08-2106 PJH (PR)

ORDER OF TRANSFER

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

plea-bargained conviction obtained in the Superior Court in and for San Bernardino County. 

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

District of California. Petitioner is incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, which is 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); however, 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).

 Because petitioner was convicted in San Bernardino County, this case is

TRANSFERRED to the United States District Court for the Central District of California. See

28 U.S.C. § 1404(a); Habeas L.R. 2254-3(b). In light of the transfer, petitioner may

disregard the clerk’s notice regarding his in forma pauperis application. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 29, 2008. 

 PHYLLIS J. HAMILTON

United States District Judge

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