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Parties Involved:
John Michael Balbo
Petitioner
M. Martel
Respondent

Document Text:

United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOHN MICHAEL BALBO,

Petitioner,

 v.

M. MARTEL,

Respondent.

/

No. C 16-5559 WHA (PR) 

ORDER OF TRANSFER

Petitioner is a state prisoner currently incarcerated at the California Health Care Facility

in Stockton, California. He has filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C.

2254 challenging his conviction in San Bernardino County Superior Court.

A petition for a writ of habeas corpus made by a person in custody under the judgment

and sentence of a state court of a state which 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). Each of such districts shall have concurrent jurisdiction to entertain the petition;

however, the district court for the district 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. 

See Dannenberg v. Ingle, 831 F. Supp. 767, 768 (N.D. Cal. 1993); Laue v. Nelson, 279 F. Supp.

265, 266 (N.D. Cal. 1968).

Petitioner challenges his conviction and sentence from San Bernardino County, which

lies within the venue of the Central District of California. 28 U.S.C. 84(c)(1). Accordingly, in

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United States District Court

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the interest of justice, and pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1406(a), that this action be TRANSFERRED to

the United States District Court for the Central District of California. 

The clerk shall transfer this matter forthwith.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 29 , 2016. 

WILLIAM ALSUP

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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