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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 DONALD MACCORD, Case No. 22-cv-04186-SVK

Plaintiff,

ORDER OF TRANSFER

v.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Defendant.

Petitioner is on supervised release pursuant to a federal sentence. He has filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in which he argues that he has been improperly deprived of time credits under the First Step Act. Petitioner was convicted and sentenced in the Northern District of California, he served approximately 20 months in a federal penitentiary in Montgomery, Alabama, and now he is on supervised release in the Southern District of California. Federal courts generally take the position that the district of confinement "is normally the forum most convenient to the parties," and therefore exercise discretion in transferring petitions to the district of confinement "in the interests of justice" pursuant 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a). McCoy v. United States Bd. of Parole, 537 F.2d 962, 966 (8th Cir. 1976); see also Dunne v. Henman,…