(HC) Dean v. Unknown ( 2024 )

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 10 DAVID ANTHONY DEAN, No. 2:24-cv-1173 CKD P 11 Petitioner, 12 v. ORDER 13 UNKNOWN, 14 Respondent. 15 16 Petitioner, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed an application for a writ of habeas 17 corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Petitioner has not paid the filing fee or submitted a request 18 to proceed in forma pauperis. 19 The application attacks a conviction issued by the Riverside County Superior Court. 20 While both this court and the United States District Court in the district where petitioner was 21 convicted have jurisdiction, see Braden v. 30th Judicial Circuit Court, 410 U.S. 484 (1973), any 22 and all witnesses and evidence necessary for the resolution of petitioner’s application are more 23 readily available in Riverside County. Id. at 499 n.15; 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d). 24 Accordingly, in the furtherance of justice, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that this matter is 25 transferred to the United States District Court for the Central District of California. 26 ///// 27 ///// 28 ///// 1 || Dated: May 7, 2024 hie. A Lz loa, 2 CAROLYN K. DELANEY 3 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 4 5 6 7 8 9 | 12/dean1 173.108 10 1 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28