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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
GUSTAVO GALLARDO,
Civil No.
06cv1780-BEN (WMc)
Petitioner,
ORDER TRANSFERRING ACTION
TO UNITED STATES DISTRICT
COURT FOR THE CENTRAL
DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA,
EASTERN DIVISION
vs.
A. P. KANE, Warden,
Respondent.
Petitioner, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed a petition for a writ of habeas
corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Petitioner challenges his conviction in the San Bernardino
County Superior Court. In accordance with the practice of district courts in California, the Court
transfers the Petition to the United States District Court for the Central District of California,
Eastern Division.
A petition for writ of habeas corpus may be filed in the United States District Court of
the judicial district in which the petitioner is presently confined or the judicial district in which
he was convicted and sentenced. See 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d); Braden v. 30th Judicial Circuit
Court, 410 U.S. 484, 497 (1973). Petitioner here attacks a conviction suffered in the San
Bernardino Superior Court. (Pet. at 1.) That court is located in San Bernardino County, which
is within the jurisdictional boundaries of the United States District Court for the Central District
of California, Eastern Division. See 28 U.S.C. § 84(c)(1). Petitioner is presently confined at the
Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, California. That prison is located in Monterey
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County, which is within the jurisdictional boundaries of the United States District Court for the
Northern District of California. See 28 U.S.C. § 84(a). Jurisdiction over this Petition thus exists
in the C