300 F. Supp. 686 | E.D.N.Y | 1969
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
Petitioner seeks a writ of habeas corpus. He was sentenced by the Supreme Court, Bronx County, on March 30, 1965 to ten to twenty years imprisonment and is presently incarcerated in Attica State Prison, Attica, New York.
Proper venue for this application lies only in the Western District of New York, where the petitioner is in custody, or in the Southern District, within which the petitioner was convicted and sentenced. 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d). Enforcement of the venue requirement is particularly appropriate here, since the petition showed that two prior applications have been filed in the Southern District. These are stated to be Docket Numbers 67 Civil 4725 and 68 Civil 2598.
While this court is not the proper District under either alternative of § 2241(d), it has jurisdiction to trans
The petition is ordered transferred to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.