Tabb v. Stephenson
Filing
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MEMORANDUM ORDER Regarding Transfer. Signed by Magistrate Judge Keith F. Giblin on 10/18/16. (tkd, ) [Transferred from Texas Eastern on 10/19/2016.]
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
BEAUMONT DIVISION
MAURICE CORNELL TABB
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VS.
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DIRECTOR, TDCJ-CID
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CIVIL ACTION NO. 1:16cv357
MEMORANDUM ORDER REGARDING TRANSFER
Petitioner Maurice Cornell Tabb, an inmate confined at the Stiles Unit of the Texas
Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, proceeding pro se, filed this
petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254.
Discussion
On December 13, 2010, in the 213th Criminal District Court for Tarrant County, Texas,
petitioner was convicted of robbery with bodily injury and sentenced to a term of fifteen years’
imprisonment in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division.
Petitioner brings this petition contesting his conviction and sentence.
Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d), a petitioner may bring his petition for writ of habeas corpus
in the district court for the district wherein such person is in custody or in the district court for the
district within which he was convicted. Section 2241(d) further provides that the district court in
the exercise of its discretion may transfer the action to the other district in the furtherance of justice.
Petitioner is currently confined at the Stiles Unit located in Beaumont, Texas which is located
in the Eastern District of Texas. However, petitioner was convicted and sentenced in Tarrant
County, Texas. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C § 124, Tarrant County is in the Fort Worth Division of the
Northern District of Texas.
While jurisdiction is proper in the Eastern District of Texas because the prisoner is confined
within the district court’s territorial boundaries, the court has considered the circumstances and has
determined that the interest of justice would best be served if this petition were transferred to the
division in which the petitioner was convicted.
Under 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a), for the convenience of parties and witnesses and in the interest
of justice, a district court may transfer any civil action to any other district or division where it could
have been brought. Such a transfer may be done sua sponte and is reviewable only for an abuse of
discretion. Mills v. Beech Aircraft Corp., 886 F.2d 758, 761 (5th Cir. 1989).
Since petitioner complains of a conviction which occurred in the Fort Worth Division of the
Northern District of Texas and all records and witnesses involving this action may be located in the
Northern District, the transfer of this action to such division would further justice. Therefore, it is
the opinion of the undersigned that this petition should be transferred to the United States District
Court for the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division. Accordingly, it is
ORDERED that the Clerk of Court will TRANSFER this action to the Clerk of Court for
the United is a Test
Hello This States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division.
SIGNED this 18
day of
October
, 2016.
KEITH F. GIBLIN
UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE
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