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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 28:2241 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus

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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

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

THOMAS E. SPYCHALA,

Petitioner,

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VICTOR M. ALMAGER, Warden,

Respondent.

 

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No. C 07-03294 JW (PR)

ORDER OF TRANSFER

(Docket Nos. 2 & 8)

Petitioner, a California prisoner, has filed this pro se petition for a writ of habeas

corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The underlying conviction and sentenced here

were obtained in 1972 in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

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

district of conviction, 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d); although petitions challenging a conviction

are preferably heard in the district of conviction. See Habeas L.R. 2254-3(a); Laue v.

Nelson, 279 F. Supp. 265, 266 (N.D. Cal. 1968); cf. Dunne v. Henman, 875 F.2d 244,

249 (9th Cir. 1989) (district of confinement best forum to review execution of

sentence). The venue for Los Angeles County, where petitioner was convicted, is the

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United States District Court for the Central District of California. See 28 U.S.C. §

84(c). 

Because venue is preferred in the Central District, 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 this transfer, this Court will defer to the

Central District for a ruling on the application for leave to proceed in forma pauperis. 

The Clerk shall transfer this matter forthwith, and terminate docket numbers 2 &

8, and any other pending motions, from this Court’s docket.

DATED: 

JAMES WARE

United States District Judge 

October 17, 2007

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