(PS) Mays v. State of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 ROBERT DENVER MAYS, JR., No. 2:20-cv-986-TLN-EFB PS Plaintiff, v. ORDER STATE OF CALIFORNIA; STATE OF

OREGON,

14 Defendants.

16 Plaintiff, a resident of Oregon, filed a complaint against the State of California and the State of Oregon and an application to proceed in forma pauperis pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915.1 ECF Nos. 1 & 2. For the following reasons, this action is transferred to the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. Liberally construed, the complaint alleges that in 2007, plaintiff was convicted in the Santa Clara County Superior Court of a crime he did not commit. ECF No. 1 at 5. Plaintiff alleges that in 2018, he was wrongly charged in an Oregon state court with possession of a firearm. Id. He claims that the 2018 charge was improper because the applicable statute of limitations had expired and his attorney was married to the District Attorney. Id. He further claims that the criminal “cases are all…