Case Name: Zemond LIGHTFOOT v. Tim KEITH, Warden Winn Correctional Center, Winnfield, Louisiana
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2018-02-23
Citations: 236 So. 3d 563
Docket Number: No. 2016–KP–1389
Parties: Zemond LIGHTFOOT
v.
Tim KEITH, Warden Winn Correctional Center, Winnfield, Louisiana
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 236
Pages: 563–564

Head Matter:
Zemond LIGHTFOOT
v.
Tim KEITH, Warden Winn Correctional Center, Winnfield, Louisiana
No. 2016-KP-1389
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
February 23, 2018
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE TWENTY-FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF JEFFERSON

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Denied. Relator's guilty plea waived all non-jurisdictional defects in the proceedings leading to his conviction. State v. Crosby , 338 So.2d 584, 586 (La. 1976). Relator also fails to show that he was denied the effective assistance of counsel during plea negotiations under the standard of Strickland v. Washington , 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984).
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.