(HC) Pryor v. The People of the State of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MICHAEL E. PRYOR, Case No. 1:20-cv-00827-EPG-HC

Petitioner, ORDER TRANSFERRING CASE TO THE

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

v.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF

CALIFORNIA,

15 Respondent.

17 Petitioner Michael E. Pryor is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a petition for writ of habeas corpus. When a state prisoner files a habeas petition in a state that contains two or more federal judicial districts, the petition may be filed in either the judicial district in which the petitioner is presently confined or the judicial district in which he was convicted and sentenced. See 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d); Rumsfeld v. Padilla, 542 U.S. 426, 442 (2004) (quoting Carbo v. United States, 364 U.S. 611, 618, 81 S. Ct. 338, 5 L. Ed. 2d 329 (1961)). Petitions challenging the execution of a sentence are preferably heard in the district where the inmate is confined. See Dunne v. Henman, 875 F.2d 244, 249 (9th Cir. 1989). Petitions challenging convictions or sentences are preferably heard in the district of…