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Parties Involved:
Roberto Santiago Ramirez
Petitioner
Spearman
Respondent

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ROBERTO SANTIAGO RAMIREZ,

Petitioner,

v.

SPEARMAN,

Respondent.

Case No. 14-cv-02110-VC 

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO 

TRANSFER VENUE

Re: Dkt. No. 10

Petitioner Roberto Santiago Ramirez, a state prisoner incarcerated at the California 

Training Facility in Soledad, filed a pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 42 

U.S.C. § 2254. On August 15, 2014, the Court issued an order for Respondent to show cause why 

the petition should not be granted. On October 9, 2014, Respondent filed a motion to transfer this 

action to the Eastern District of California. Ramirez has not filed an opposition.

According to the petition, Ramirez was convicted in the Kern County Superior Court of 

shoplifting items worth $40.00 and was sentenced, under the three strikes law, to twenty-seven 

years to life in prison. He challenges the twenty-seven year sentence as cruel and unusual 

punishment. Kern County Superior Court lies in the Eastern District of California.

A petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed by a state prisoner in a State that contains two 

or more federal judicial districts may be filed in either the district of confinement or the district of 

conviction. See 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d). The district court where the petition is filed may transfer 

the petition to the other district in the furtherance of justice. See id. Federal courts in California 

traditionally have chosen to hear petitions challenging a conviction or sentence in the district of 

conviction. Dannenberg v. Ingle, 831 F. Supp. 767, 767 (N.D. Cal. 1993); Habeas L.R. 2254-3(a). 

Because Ramirez is challenging the sentence imposed by the Kern County Superior Court, 

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venue for his habeas case lies in the Eastern District, not in this district. Accordingly, 

Respondent’s motion to transfer venue is granted. The Court orders that, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 

1404(a) and Habeas L.R. 2254-3(b), the Clerk of the Court transfer this petition to the United 

States District Court for the Eastern District of California. 

This Order terminates docket number 10.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 14, 2014

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VINCE CHHABRIA

United States District Judge

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ROBERTO SANTIAGO RAMIREZ,

Plaintiff,

v.

SPEARMAN,

Defendant.

Case No. 14-cv-02110-VC 

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 11/14/2014, 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.

Roberto Santiago Ramirez ID: K-37446

California Training Facility, North A-120-L

P.O. Box 705

Soledad, CA 93960 

Dated: 11/14/2014

Richard W. Wieking

Clerk, United States District Court

By:________________________

Kristen Melen, Deputy Clerk to the 

Honorable VINCE CHHABRIA

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