Thompson

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JOSE RANGEL, Case No. 2:22-cv-00021-JDP (HC) Plaintiff, ORDER TRANSFERRING CASE TO THE McALLEN DIVISION OF THE UNITED v. STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS

PAUL THOMPSON, Defendants. 16 Plaintiff, a federal prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed a habeas petition. Therein, he alleges that he should be immediately released because his conviction is based on a faulty indictment. ECF No. 1 at 3-4. The indictment and conviction stem from proceedings in the McAllen Division of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Id. at 3. An attack on the validity of a conviction should be brought in the court of conviction. See Hernandez v. Campbell, 204 F.3d 861, 864-865 (9th Cir. 2000) (“Generally, motions to contest the legality of a sentence must be filed under § 2255 in the sentencing court, while petitions that challenge the manner, location, or conditions of a…