Case Name: STATE EX REL. Staci ALVARADO v. STATE of Louisiana
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2017-03-31
Citations: 214 So. 3d 842
Docket Number: No. 2015-KH-2217
Parties: STATE EX REL. Staci ALVARADO v. STATE of Louisiana
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 214
Pages: 842–842

Head Matter:
STATE EX REL. Staci ALVARADO v. STATE of Louisiana
No. 2015-KH-2217
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
03/31/2017

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
| iDenied. Relator shows no error in the lower courts' rulings.
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 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 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.