Case Name: Glen STYLES v. Burl CAIN
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2017-10-27
Citations: 228 So. 3d 200
Docket Number: No. 2016-KP-1219
Parties: Glen STYLES v. Burl CAIN
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 228
Pages: 200–200

Head Matter:
Glen STYLES v. Burl CAIN
No. 2016-KP-1219
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
10/27/2017

Opinion:
ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEAL, FIFTH CIRCUIT, PARISH OF JEFFERSON
PER CURIAM:
[denied. Relator fails to show that the state withheld material exculpatory evidence in violation of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 83 S.Ct. 1194, 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963).
Relator has now fully litigated two applications 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.