(HC) Baker v. Superior Courts of California

1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 4 JAMAUL LEE BAKER, BE6323, Case No. 24-cv-00449-SK (PR) Petitioner, y. ORDER OF TRANSFER CHARLES SCHUYLER, Acting Warden,! Respondent. Petitioner seeks federal habeas review of a sentence from Sacramento County Superior Court, which lies within the venue of the Eastern District of California. See 28 U.S.C. $ 84(b). || Petitioner is incarcerated at Salinas Valley State Prison in Monterey County, which lies within the venue of the Northern District of California. See id. § 84(a). Venue is proper in a habeas action in either the district of confinement or the district of |} conviction, 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d); however, petitions challenging a conviction/sentence (as opposed || to the execution of a sentence) preferably are heard in the district of conviction/sentencing. See Habeas L.R. 2254-3(a); Dannenberg v. Ingle, 831 F. Supp. 767, 767 (N.D. Cal. 1993). …