Crabtree

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 DARWIN CRABTREE, Case No. 3:19-cv-08058-JD

Plaintiff,

ORDER RE TRANSFER

v. 9 Re: Dkt. Nos. 6, 16 COUNTY OF BUTTE, et al., Defendants.

12 Plaintiff Darwin Crabtree is a resident of Butte County and sues the county and its officers for violations of his constitutional rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law. Dkt. No. 1; Dkt. No. 8, Ex. 1 at 2. He alleges that he was maliciously prosecuted for sexual abuse of his children by the Butte County District Attorney’s Office on the basis of false accusations coerced by the Butte County Alcohol and Drug Services. He was convicted by a Butte County jury in Superior Court, incarcerated for 9 years, and required to register as a sex offender for 17 more years, after which his conviction was vacated. Butte County is located in the Eastern District of California. The case was initially assigned to a magistrate judge, who ordered Crabtree to show cause why the case should not be transferred to the Eastern District. Dkt.…