Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Joshua VALLO
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2019-02-18
Citations: 263 So. 3d 1142
Docket Number: No. 2018-KP-0304
Parties: STATE of Louisiana
v.
Joshua VALLO
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 263
Pages: 1142–1143

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana
v.
Joshua VALLO
No. 2018-KP-0304
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
February 18, 2019
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE TWENTY-SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF WEBSTER

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Denied. Relator fails to show he received ineffective assistance of counsel under the standard of Strickland v. Washington , 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984). As to his remaining claim, relator fails to carry his post-conviction burden of proof. La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.2.
Relator has now fully litigated his application for post-conviction relief in state court. Similar to federal habeas relief, see 28 U.S.C. § 2244, Louisiana post-conviction procedure envisions the filing of a second or successive application only under the narrow circumstances provided in La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.4 and within the limitations period as set out in La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.8. Notably, the legislature in 2013 La. Acts 251 amended that article to make the procedural bars against successive filings mandatory. Relator's claims have now been fully litigated in accord with La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.6, and this denial is final. Hereafter, unless he can show that one of the narrow exceptions authorizing the filing of a successive application applies, relator has exhausted his right to state collateral review. The district court is ordered to record a minute entry consistent with this per curiam.