Johnson v. State of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ANDREW JOHNSON, G57626, Case No. 22-cv-01569-SK (PR) Petitioner, y. ORDER OF TRANSFER STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Respondent. Petitioner seeks federal habeas review of a conviction from Solano County Superior Court, which lies within the venue of the Eastern District of California. See 28 U.S.C. § 84(b). S || Petitioner is incarcerated at the California Health Care Facility — Stockton in San Joaquin County, which also lies within the venue of the Eastern District of California. See id. a Venue is proper in a habeas action in either the district of confinement or the district of || conviction, see 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d); however, petitions challenging a conviction (rather than the || execution of a sentence) preferably are heard in the district of conviction. See Habeas L.R. 2254- 3(a); Dannenberg v. Ingle, 831 F. Supp. 767, 767 (N.D. Cal. 1993). Because Solano County…