Case Name: STATE EX REL. Darrell JAMES v. STATE of Louisiana
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2018-08-03
Citations: 249 So. 3d 827
Docket Number: No. 2017-KH-0140
Parties: STATE EX REL. Darrell JAMES
v.
STATE of Louisiana
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 249
Pages: 827–828

Head Matter:
STATE EX REL. Darrell JAMES
v.
STATE of Louisiana
No. 2017-KH-0140
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
August 3, 2018
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE TWENTY-FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF JEFFERSON

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Denied. Relator fails to satisfy 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 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.