Opinion
CV 107-136.
November 8, 2007
ORDER
The above-captioned petition for a writ of habeas corpus was filed in the Augusta Division of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. However, the petition, filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, challenges a judgment of conviction that was entered in the Aiken County Court of General Sessions in Aiken County, South Carolina. It is the practice of this Court to transfer an action attacking a conviction to the district in which the original criminal proceedings were conducted. See 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d); see also Bell v. Watkins, 692 F.2d 999, 1013 (5th Cir. 1982) (approving transfer of § 2254 petition from district of incarceration to district where petitioner was convicted). Therefore, this case properly belongs in the Aiken Division of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina. Therefore, it is ORDERED that the captioned action is TRANSFERRED to the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina. The Clerk of Court is DIRECTED to immediately forward the file to that District.
SO ORDERED.