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Parties Involved:
Robert Horel
Respondent
James R. Williamson
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

JAMES WILLIAMSON,

Petitioner,

 v.

ROBERT HOREL,

Respondent. /

No. C 07-03228 CW (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 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.

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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. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: 9/6/067 

CLAUDIA WILKEN

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JAMES WILLIAMSON,

Plaintiff,

 v.

ROBERT HOREL et al,

Defendant. /

Case Number: CV07-03228 CW 

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 September 6, 2007, 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.

James R. Williamson D34288

Pelican Bay State Prison

P.O. Box 7500

Crescent City, CA 95532

Dated: September 6, 2007

Richard W. Wieking, Clerk

By: Sheilah Cahill, Deputy Clerk

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