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Nature of Suit Code: 540
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Mandamus and Other
Cause of Action: 28:1651 Petition for Writ of Mandamus

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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 This case should be transferred to the Eastern District even if it were to be construed

as a civil rights action.

United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

OAKLAND DIVISION

CALVIN LYNN

Petitioner,

 v.

SHERRI GRECCO, SACRAMENTO

COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY,

Respondent. /

No. C 15-0687 PJH (PR)

ORDER OF TRANSFER

Petitioner, a state prisoner, has filed a pro se petition for a writ of mandate. He

seeks an order to obtain counsel to acquire DNA evidence to help prove his innocence in a

criminal case. Plaintiff is incarcerated in Stockton, CA which is located within the venue of

the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, where the respondent

in this case resides. His underlying conviction occurred in Sacramento County which also

lies in the Eastern District. 

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

of conviction, 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d); this district is neither.1

 Therefore, this petition is

TRANSFERRED to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. 

See 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a); Habeas L.R. 2254-3(b).

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 24, 2015. 

 PHYLLIS J. HAMILTON

United States District Judge

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