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United States District Court 
Northern District of California 
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 
MAURICE GRIFFIN, 
Petitioner, 
v. 
JEFF MACOMBER, 
Respondent. 
Case No.  25-cv-08498-HSG   
ORDER OF TRANSFER 
Petitioner, a parolee currently living in Walnut Creek, California, has filed this pro se 
action seeking a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241, challenging his 2019 
sentence.  See generally ECF No. 1.  Petitioner was convicted and sentenced in San Diego County, 
which is in the Southern District of California.  Id.  Petitioner currently resides in the Northern 
District of California.  Id.  Venue for a habeas action is proper in either the district of confinement 
or the district of conviction.  28 U.S.C. § 2241(d).  However, a petition challenging the sentence 
imposed is preferably heard in the district of conviction and sentencing.  See N.D. Cal. Habeas 
L.R. 2254-3(b); see also Dannenberg v. Ingle, 831 F. Supp. 767, 767-68 (N.D. Cal. 1993).
Petitioner was convicted and sentenced in the Southern District of California.  See 28 U.S.C. § 
84(b).  Accordingly, this case is TRANSFERRED to the United States District Court for the 
Southern District of California.  See 28 U.S.C. § 1406(a).  The Clerk is directed to close this case. 
IT IS SO ORDERED. 
Dated: 
______________________________________ 
HAYWOOD S. GILLIAM, JR. 
United States District Judge 
10/14/2025
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