Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Harold OZENNE
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2019-01-28
Citations: 262 So. 3d 276
Docket Number: No. 2017-KP-0097
Parties: STATE of Louisiana
v.
Harold OZENNE
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 262
Pages: 276–277

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana
v.
Harold OZENNE
No. 2017-KP-0097
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
January 28, 2019
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF LAFAYETTE

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Denied. Relator fails to show that 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). Additionally, 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 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 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 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.
Hughes, J., would grant the writ.