Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Robert Latroy WHITE
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2019-03-18
Citations: 265 So. 3d 757
Docket Number: No. 2018-KH-0616
Parties: STATE of Louisiana
v.
Robert Latroy WHITE
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 265
Pages: 757–758

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana
v.
Robert Latroy WHITE
No. 2018-KH-0616
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
March 18, 2019
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE TWENTY-FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF TANGIPAHOA

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Denied. Applicant's sentencing claim is not cognizable on collateral review. La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.3 ; State ex rel. Melinie v. State , 93-1380 (La. 1/12/96), 665 So.2d 1172. State v. Cotton , 09-2397 (La. 10/15/10), 45 So.3d 1030. The application is also repetitive. La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.4
Applicant 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. Applicant'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, applicant has exhausted his right to state collateral review. The district court is ordered to record a minute entry consistent with this per curiam.
WEIMER, J., recused.