Gordon Lee Wilkins v. Don R. Erickson, Warden of the South Dakota State Penitentiary

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a habeas petition filed by a Montana prisoner housed in a South Dakota prison was properly transferred from the District of South Dakota to the District of Montana, because Montana, being the place of conviction, was the preferable venue
• allowing transfer of habeas corpus case from the District of South Dakota to the District of Montana because “Montana, the state of conviction and sentencing, is the most convenient forum because of the availability of witnesses and records”
• allowing transfer of habeas corpus case from the District of South Dakota to the District of Montana because “Montana, the state of conviction and sentencing, is the most convenient forum because of the availability of witnesses and records.”
• allowing transfer of habeas corpus case from the District of South Dakota to the District of Montana because “Montana, the state of conviction and sentencing, is the most convenient forum because of the availability of witnesses and records.”
• allowing transfer of habeas corpus case from the District of South Dakota to the District of Montana because “Montana, the state of conviction and sentencing, is the most convenient forum because of the availability of witnesses and records”
• allowing transfer of habeas corpus case from the District of South Dakota to the District of Montana because “Montana, the state of conviction and sentencing, is the most convenient forum because of the availability of witnesses and records”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).