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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

Eastern District of California

Joe Thomas Miller, No. Civ. S-05-0635 LKK PAN P

Petitioner, Order

vs.

Derral G. Adams,

Respondent.

-oOoPetitioner, a state prisoner proceeding without counsel, has

filed an application for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28

U.S.C. § 2254.

Petitioner challenges a conviction in the San Francisco

County Superior Court. This court and the United States District

Court in the district where petitioner was convicted both have

jurisdiction, see Braden v. 30th Judicial Circuit Court, 410 U.S.

484 (1973), but witnesses and evidence necessary for the

resolution of petitioner’s application are more readily

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available in San Francisco County. Id. at 499 n. 15; 28 U.S.C.

§ 2241(d).

Petitioner’s claim regarding failure to receive gastric

bypass surgery at California State Prison - Corcoran must be

presented in a civil rights action in the Fresno Division of this

court.

Accordingly, in the furtherance of justice, I hereby order

that this matter is transferred to the United States District

Court for the Northern District of California.

Dated: May 31, 2005. 

 /s/ Peter A. Nowinski 

 PETER A. NOWINSKI

 Magistrate Judge

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