(HC) Sands v. Diaz ( 2019 )

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 PHILIP LEO SANDS, No. 2:19-cv-2125 CKD P 12 Petitioner, 13 v. ORDER 14 RALPH DIAZ, et al., 15 Respondents. 16 17 Petitioner, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed an application for a writ of habeas 18 corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The application attacks a conviction issued by the Superior 19 Court of San Francisco County. While both this court and the United States District Court in the 20 district where petitioner was convicted have jurisdiction, see Braden v. 30th Judicial Circuit 21 Court, 410 U.S. 484 (1973), any and all witnesses and evidence necessary for the resolution of 22 petitioner’s application are more readily available in San Francisco County. Id. at 499 n.15; 28 23 U.S.C. § 2241(d). 24 ///// 25 ///// 26 ///// 27 ///// 28 ///// 1 Accordingly, in the furtherance of justice, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that this matter is 2 | transferred to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Dated: October 24, 2019 Ay Lad 1 CAN fu fl. ay CAROLYN K. DELANEY 5 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 6 7 8 | 1 9 sand2125.109 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28