SOSA v. HOREL

Full title: ALFRED R. SOSA, Petitioner, v. R. HOREL, Warden, Respondent

Court: United States District Court, E.D. California

Date published: Jan 18, 2008

No. CIV S-08-0100 LEW DAD P (E.D. Cal. Jan. 18, 2008)

Opinion

No. CIV S-08-0100 LEW DAD P.

January 18, 2008

ORDER

DALE DROZD, Magistrate Judge

Petitioner, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed an application for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, challenging a Board of Parole Hearings' decision denying him parole, together with an application to proceed in forma pauperis.

At the time the instant action was filed, petitioner was confined at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California, located within the jurisdictional boundaries of the Northern District. He remains confined at that institution at this time. The proper venue for a habeas challenge to a state parole decision is the district of the petitioner's incarceration at the time the petition is filed.

Accordingly, in the furtherance of justice, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that this matter is transferred to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.