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Parties Involved:
Brian Moffitt
Petitioner
Salinas Valley State Prison
Respondent

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

San Francisco Division

BRIAN MOFFITT,

Petitioner,

v.

SALINAS VALLEY STATE PRISON,

Respondent.

Case No. 16-cv-01328-LB 

ORDER OF TRANSFER

[Re: ECF No. 1 ]

Brian Moffitt, an inmate at Salinas Valley State Prison, filed this pro se action for a writ of 

habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. He states that he is challenging a sentence from the 

Amador County Superior Court, and alleges that his continued incarceration is past the end of his 

3-year maximum incarceration under California Penal Code § 1370. (ECF No. 1 at 5.)1 He 

consented to proceed before a magistrate judge. (ECF No. 7.) Mr. Moffitt is incarcerated in 

Monterey County, which is located within the venue of the Northern District of California, and his 

conviction occurred in Amador County, which is located within the venue of the Eastern District 

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

of conviction, with the preferable district being the district of conviction for a petition challenging 

 

1 Citations are to the Electronic Case File (“ECF”); pin cites are to the ECF-generated page 

numbers at the tops of documents.

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a conviction or sentence imposed. See 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d); N. D. Cal. Habeas L.R. 2254-3(b).

Because the conviction occurred in the Eastern District of California, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 

1404(a) and Habeas Local Rule 2254-3(b), and in the interest of justice, this action is 

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

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 19, 2016

______________________________________

LAUREL BEELER

United States Magistrate Judge

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

BRIAN MOFFITT,

Plaintiff,

v.

SALINAS VALLEY STATE PRISON,

Defendant.

Case No. 3:16-cv-01328-LB 

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 April 19, 2016, 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.

Brian Moffitt ID: AM0514

SVSP TC1A9

PO Box 1050

Salinas, CA 93960 

Dated: April 19, 2016 Susan Y. Soong

Clerk, United States District Court

By:________________________

Lashanda Scott, Deputy Clerk to the 

Honorable LAUREL BEELER

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