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Parties Involved:
Rochelle Hao
Respondent
Lester C. Russell
Petitioner

Document Text:

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

LESTER C. RUSSELL,

Petitioner,

 v.

ROCHELLE HAO, 

Respondent. /

No. C 10-03151 SBA (PR)

ORDER OF TRANSFER

Petitioner, a state prisoner, has filed a pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus. 

Federal statute allows "the Supreme Court, any justice thereof, the district courts and any

circuit judge" to grant writs of habeas corpus "within their respective jurisdictions." 28 U.S.C.

§ 2241(a). A federal petition for a writ of habeas corpus made by a person in custody under the

judgment and sentence of a state court is properly filed in either the district of confinement or the

district of conviction. Id. § 2241(d). Where a case is filed in the wrong venue, the district court has

the discretion to transfer it to the proper federal court "in the interest of justice." See 28 U.S.C.

§ 1406(a). 

Here, Petitioner challenges a conviction and sentence incurred in the Sacramento County

Superior Court, which is in the venue of the Eastern District of California. See 28 U.S.C. § 84. 

Accordingly, that is the proper venue for this action.

Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1406(a) and Habeas L.R. 2254-3(b), and in the interest of justice, the

Clerk of the Court is ordered to TRANSFER this action forthwith to the United States District Court

for the Eastern District of California.

All pending motions are TERMINATED on this Court's docket as no longer pending in this

district.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: 8/9/10 

SAUNDRA BROWN ARMSTRONG

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LESTER C. RUSSELL,

Plaintiff,

 v.

/ et al,

Defendant. /

Case Number: CV10-03151 SBA 

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 August 9, 2010, 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.

Lester C. Russell AD3735

Deuel Vocational Institution

P.O. Box 600

Tracy, CA 95378-0600

Dated: August 9, 2010

Richard W. Wieking, Clerk

By: LISA R CLARK, Deputy Clerk

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