Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Tracy Lee MCMOOAIN
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2019-02-25
Citations: 264 So. 3d 434
Docket Number: No. 2018-KH-0345
Parties: STATE of Louisiana
v.
Tracy Lee MCMOOAIN
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 264
Pages: 434–435

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana
v.
Tracy Lee MCMOOAIN
No. 2018-KH-0345
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
February 25, 2019
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ST. TAMMANY

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 ; see also State v. Cotton , 09-2397 (La. 10/15/10), 45 So.3d 1030. Applicant also 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). As to his remaining claims, applicant fails to satisfy his post-conviction burden of proof. La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.2.
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 the writ for an evidentiary hearing.