Roberson
(HC) Harge v. Roberson
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
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1 2 3 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 DEMARIA C. HARGE, Case No. 20-cv-04663-JD Petitioner, y ORDER OF TRANSFER ? Re: Dkt. Nos. 3, 5 JIM ROBERSON, ll Respondent.
This is a habeas case filed pro se by a state prisoner. Petitioner challenges a conviction
v 14 || obtained in Stanislaus County Superior Court. Stanislaus County is in the venue of the United O States District Court for the Eastern District of California. Petitioner is incarcerated in this 16 || district.
Venue for a habeas action is proper in either the district of confinement or the district of
18 || conviction, 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d). 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 in the Eastern District of…