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EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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11 ROBERT E. MARTIN, Case No. 1:24-cv-00565-EPG-HC

12 Petitioner, ORDER TRANSFERRING CASE TO THE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR

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CALIFORNIA

14 BRANDON PRICE,

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16 17 Petitioner Robert E. Marin has been civilly committed and is proceeding pro se with a 18 petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. 19 When a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a state court files a habeas petition 20 in a state that contains two or more federal judicial districts, the petition may be filed in either 21 the judicial district in which the petitioner is presently confined or the judicial district in which 22 he was convicted and sentenced. See 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d); Rumsfeld v. Padilla, 542 U.S. 426, 23 442 (2004) (quoting Carbo v. United States, 364 U.S. 611, 618, 81 S. Ct. 338, 5 L. Ed. 2d 329 24 (1961)). Petitions challenging the execution of a sentence are preferably heard in the district 25 where the inmate is confined. See Dunne v. Henman,…