The court dismissed a § 2241 habeas petition for lack of jurisdiction because the petitioners were no longer incarcerated in the Eastern District of California. The petitioners asked the court "to take jurisdiction" as they were incarcerated in that court's jurisdiction when they filed. The court dismissed the petition without prejudice to be filed in the correct court.
Zambrano v. Wolf, No. 1:20-cv-00595-DAD, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 91665 (E.D. Cal. May 26, 2020)
Compassionate Release Exhaustion Holdingsin Federal Case
An individual can move for compassionate release after 30 days have passed from the date the application was submitted to the warden, irrespective of whether the warden has granted or denied the request.
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