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Parties Involved:
Juan Cervantes-Gonzales
Petitioner
S. Frauenheim
Respondent

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

EUREKA DIVISON

JUAN CERVANTES-GONZALES,

Petitioner,

v.

S. FRAUENHEIM,

Respondent.

Case No. 16-cv-2878-NJV (PR) 

ORDER OF TRANSFER

This is a petition for writ of habeas corpus filed pro se by a state prisoner. Petitioner 

challenges a conviction obtained in the Kings County Superior Court. Kings County is in the 

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

incarcerated in 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 and is confined in 

the Eastern District, 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: July 12, 2016

________________________

NANDOR J. VADAS

United States Magistrate Judge

Case 1:16-cv-02878-NJV Document 5 Filed 07/12/16 Page 1 of 1