Leopoldo Lopez v. Warden

Filing 3

ORDER signed by Magistrate Judge Kendall J. Newman on 03/19/18 CASE TRANSFERRED to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. (Plummer, M) [Transferred from California Eastern on 3/20/2018.]

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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LEOPOLDO LOPEZ,

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Petitioner,

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No. 2:18-cv-0478 KJN P

v.

ORDER

UNKNOWN,

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Respondent.

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Petitioner, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed an application for a writ of habeas

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corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254.1 Petitioner has not submitted the filing fee or filed a request

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to proceed in forma pauperis.
The application attacks a conviction issued by the Los Angeles County Superior Court.

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While both this court and the United States District Court in the district where petitioner was

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convicted have jurisdiction, see Braden v. 30th Judicial Circuit Court, 410 U.S. 484 (1973), any

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and all witnesses and evidence necessary for the resolution of petitioner’s application are more

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readily available in Los Angeles County. Id. at 499 n.15; 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d).

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The petition is addressed to the California Supreme Court. If petitioner intended to file a
petition in the California Supreme Court, he must submit his filing directly to the California
Supreme Court, 350 McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA 94102.
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Accordingly, in the furtherance of justice, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that this matter is

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transferred to the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

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Dated: March 19, 2018

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lope0478.108

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