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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 MELVIN SIMMONS, JR., No. 1:25-cv-01070-SKO (HC) 12 Petitioner, ORDER TRANSFERRING CASE TO THE

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13 v. THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 14 JEFFREY MACOMBER, Secretary, et al., 15 Respondents. 16 17 Petitioner is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a petition for writ of habeas corpus 18 pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Because Petitioner challenges a Los Angeles County Superior 19 Court conviction, venue is proper for this action in the Central District of California. Thus, the 20 Court will order the petition transferred. 21 When a state prisoner files a habeas petition in a state that contains two or more federal 22 judicial districts, the petition may be filed in either the judicial district in which the petitioner is 23 presently confined or the judicial district in which he was convicted and sentenced. See 28 U.S.C. 24 § 2241(d); Rumsfeld v. Padilla, 542 U.S. 426, 442 (2004) (quoting Carbo v. United States, 364 25 …