Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Dustin GORE
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2015-10-23
Citations: 177 So. 3d 332
Docket Number: No. 15-KP-1164
Parties: STATE of Louisiana v. Dustin GORE.
Judges: HUGHES, J., would grant the writ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 177
Pages: 332–333

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana v. Dustin GORE.
No. 15-KP-1164.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
Oct. 23, 2015.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
It Denied. The district court correctly defaulted relator's application under the provision for repetitive and successive applications set out in La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.4(D) because he raised the same claim in his earlier pro se application.
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 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 relator 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.
HUGHES, J., would grant the writ.