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Parties Involved:
Donovan Correctional Facility
Respondent
Cornell Smith
Petitioner

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CORNELL SMITH

Petitioner, No. CIV S-07-1631 MCE EFB P

vs.

DONOVAN CORRECTIONAL

FACILITY,

Respondent. ORDER

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Petitioner is a state prisoner without counsel seeking a writ of habeas corpus. See 28

U.S.C. § 2254. He seeks leave to proceed in forma pauperis. See 28 U.S.C. § 1915. However,

petitioner has commenced this action in the wrong district.

Petitioner was convicted in the Los Angeles County Superior Court and is confined in the

R.J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego. Although both the Central and Southern

District Courts have jurisdiction, see Braden v. 30th Judicial Circuit Court, 410 U.S. 484, 499-

500 (1973), witnesses and evidence necessary for the resolution of petitioner’s application are

more readily available in the county of conviction. Id. at 499 n. 15; 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d). 

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Therefore, the court takes no action on petitioner’s application to proceed in forma

pauperis, and this action is ORDERED transferred to the United States District Court for the

Central District of California. 28 U.S.C. §§ 84(c)(2); 1404(a).

Dated: October 4, 2007.

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