Levar Brown v. Charles Schuyler

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FEB 19 2026

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

LEVAR BROWN, No. 23-55536

Petitioner-Appellant, D.C. No. 2:21-cv-03355-VAP-JC v.

CHARLES SCHUYLER, Warden, MEMORANDUM*

Respondent-Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Virginia A. Phillips, Chief District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted February 10, 2026 Pasadena, California

Before: OWENS, VANDYKE, and H.A. THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

California state prisoner Levar Brown appeals from the district court’s

denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition challenging his 2015 conviction for

first-degree murder. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1291 and 2253. As

the parties are familiar with the facts, we do not recount them here. We affirm.

We do not decide whether the California Court of Appeal (“CCA”) erred in

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. rejecting Brown’s…