Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Jenny Leeper BEENE
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2018-12-03
Citations: 257 So. 3d 671
Docket Number: No. 2017-KP-1102
Parties: STATE of Louisiana
v.
Jenny Leeper BEENE
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 257
Pages: 671–671

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana
v.
Jenny Leeper BEENE
No. 2017-KP-1102
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
December 3, 2018
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF CADDO

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Denied. Relator fails to show that she 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).
Relator has now fully litigated her 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 La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.4 to make the procedural bars against successive filings mandatory. Relator's claims have now been fully litigated in state collateral proceedings in accord with La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.6, and this denial is final. Hereafter, unless she can show that one of the narrow exceptions authorizing the filing of a successive application applies, relator has exhausted her right to state collateral review. The district court is ordered to record a minute entry consistent with this per curiam.
Crichton, J., recused.