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Parties Involved:
John McMahon
Respondent
Keith Edward Wulff
Petitioner

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

KEITH EDWARD WULFF, 

Petitioner, 

v. 

JOHN MCMAHON, 

Respondent. 

No. 2:15-cv-0928 GGH P 

ORDER 

 Petitioner, a county prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed an application for a writ of 

habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. 

 Petitioner is presently incarcerated at the Central Detention Center in San Bernardino 

County. He is serving a sentence for a conviction rendered by the San Bernardino County 

Superior Court. 

The general rule with regard to habeas applications is that both the United States District 

Court in the district where petitioner was convicted and the District Court where petitioner is 

incarcerated have jurisdiction over the claims. See Braden v. 30th Judicial Circuit Court, 410 

U.S. 484 (1973). In the instant case, both petitioner's conviction and his place of incarceration 

occurred in an area covered by the District Court for the Central District of California.1 

 

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 It is also apparent from the petition which is on the Central District of California form and 

which contains a case number from the Central District, as well as the heading: “first amended 

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 Accordingly, in the furtherance of justice, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that this matter is 

transferred to the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Id. at 499 

n.15; 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d). 

Dated: May 11, 2015 

 /s/ Gregory G. Hollows 

 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

GGH:076/mp 

Wulf0928.108a 

 

petition,” that petitioner intended to file this document in the Central District. (ECF No. 1 at 1.) 

An attached order from the Central District in the same case number, filed April 29, 2015, 

ordering petitioner to file an amended petition, tends to confirm this probability. (Id. at 17-22.) 

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