(HC) Brooks v. Lozano ( 2020 )

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 JERMAINE DARNELL BROOKS, No. 2:20-cv-00364 GGH P 12 Petitioner, 13 v. ORDER 14 JARED D. LOZANO, 15 Respondent. 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. Petitioner has not paid the filing fee or submitted a request 19 to proceed in forma pauperis. 20 The application attacks a conviction issued by the Alameda County Superior Court. While 21 both this court and the United States District Court in the district where petitioner was convicted 22 have jurisdiction, see Braden v. 30th Judicial Circuit Court, 410 U.S. 484 (1973), any and all 23 witnesses and evidence necessary for the resolution of petitioner’s application are more readily 24 available in Alameda County. Id. at 499 n.15; 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d). 25 Accordingly, in the furtherance of justice, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that this matter is 26 //// 27 //// 28 //// 1 transferred to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. 2 Dated: March 2, 2020 /s/ Gregory G. Hollows 3 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28