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Parties Involved:
Zenon Flores
Petitioner
S. Frauenheim
Respondent

Document Text:

United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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(Docket No. 1 at 7.)

United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ZENON FLORES,

Petitioner,

 v.

S. FRAUENHEIM,

Respondent. /

No. C 16-0064 EDL (PR)

ORDER OF TRANSFER

Petitioner, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, filed a federal petition for writ of

habeas corpus, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254.1 Petitioner seeks to challenge his

convictions obtained in the Superior Court of Kern County. Kern County is located within

the venue of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. Petitioner

is incarcerated at the Pleasant Valley State Prison, in Coalinga, California, which is also

located within the Eastern District of California.

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

of conviction, 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d); this district is neither. Because petitions challenging a

conviction are preferably heard in the district of conviction, Habeas L.R. 2254-3(a); Laue v.

Nelson, 279 F. Supp. 265, 266 (N.D. Cal. 1968), and petitioner was convicted in Kern

County, this case is TRANSFERRED to the United States District Court for the Eastern

District of California. See 28 U.S.C. § 1406(a); Habeas L.R. 2254-3(b). 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March , 2016. 

ELIZABETH D. LAPORTE

United States Magistrate Judge

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