Tracey Brown v. Attorney General for the State of Nevada

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

TRACEY L. BROWN, No. 23-15594

Petitioner-Appellant, D.C. No. v. 2:19-cv-02000-

JAD-DJA

ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR THE

STATE OF NEVADA; RONALD

OLIVER, OPINION

Respondents-Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada Jennifer A. Dorsey, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted May 14, 2025 San Francisco, California

Filed June 12, 2025

Before: Carlos T. Bea and Ana de Alba, Circuit Judges, and Jeffrey Vincent Brown,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Brown

* The Honorable Jeffrey Vincent Brown, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas, sitting by designation. SUMMARY**

Habeas Corpus

The panel affirmed the district court’s denial of Tracey Brown’s 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition in a case in which the panel addressed whether juror misconduct, in the form of an ex parte contact among a witness for the prosecution, her friend, and several jurors, deprived Brown of due…