(HC) Solvey v. Clark

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

STANLEY H. SOLVEY, Case No. 1:22-cv-01634-CDB (HC)

Petitioner, ORDER TRANSFERRING CASE TO THE

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

v. (Doc. 1) KEN CLARK,

Respondent.

Petitioner Stanley H. Solvey (“Petitioner”) is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. (Doc. 1). Petitioner challenges his February 3, 2014, conviction in the Superior Court of Los Angeles. Id. When a habeas petition is filed by a person in custody under a state court judgment, and that state contains two or more federal judicial districts—such as California—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). When a habeas petition challenges the petitioner’s conviction or sentence, the district where the petitioner was convicted and sentenced is a more convenient forum, because trial…