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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

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

KEITH JEROME WRIGHT,

Petitioner,

v.

WARDEN,

Respondent.

Case No. 15-cv-05452-JD 

ORDER OF TRANSFER

This case was opened when petitioner wrote a letter to the court regarding his conviction 

and requested counsel. In an effort to protect his rights, it was filed as a new habeas case. 

Petitioner has also filed a letter seeking to withdraw this civil rights case so he can file a habeas 

petition. Because this has been filed as a habeas petition, petitioner need not withdraw the case. 

However, petitioner was convicted in Sacramento, People v. Wright, 2015 WL 4931489 (Cal. Ct. 

App. Aug. 18, 2015) and is incarcerated at High Desert State Prison. Both of these lie in the 

Eastern District of California. 

Venue for a habeas action is proper in either the district of confinement or the district of 

conviction, 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d); this district is neither. Because 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), and petitioner was convicted and is being held in 

the Eastern District, this case is TRANSFERRED to the United States District Court for the 

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

Eastern District of California. See 28 U.S.C. § 1406(a); Habeas L.R. 2254-3(b). Petitioner 

should file the habeas petition in the Eastern District once the case has been transferred. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 8, 2016

JAMES DONATO

United States District Judge

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

KEITH JEROME WRIGHT,

Plaintiff,

v.

WARDEN,

Defendant.

Case No. 15-cv-05452-JD 

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 January 8, 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.

Keith Jerome Wright ID: AN1771

High Desert State Prison

P.O. Box 3030

Susanville, CA 96127 

Dated: January 8, 2016

Susan Y. Soong

Clerk, United States District Court

By:________________________

LISA R. CLARK, Deputy Clerk to the 

Honorable JAMES DONATO

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