Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. John CHAMBERS
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2019-05-20
Citations: 271 So. 3d 1259
Docket Number: No. 2019-KH-0391
Parties: STATE of Louisiana
v.
John CHAMBERS
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 271
Pages: 1259–1259

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana
v.
John CHAMBERS
No. 2019-KH-0391
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
May 20, 2019
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ORLEANS

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Denied. Applicant 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).
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.
Hughes, J., would grant and assigns reasons.
Hughes, J., would grant and assigns reasons.
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