Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Gene R. HESS
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2017-09-15
Citations: 225 So. 3d 473
Docket Number: No. 2016-KP-0780
Parties: STATE of Louisiana v. Gene R. HESS
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 225
Pages: 473–474

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana v. Gene R. HESS
No. 2016-KP-0780
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
9/15/2017

Opinion:
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE TWENTY-FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF PLAQUEMINES
PER CURIAM:
I ¶ Denied. Relator fails to show entitlement to the DNA testing requested. La. C.Cr.P. art. 926.1.
Relator has now fully litigated several applications for post-conviction relief in state court. Similar to federal habeas re lief, 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 he 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. The district court is ordered to record a minute entry consistent with this per curiam.