Case Name: STATE EX REL. Deadra Anne JAMES v. STATE of Louisiana
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2017-05-01
Citations: 218 So. 3d 93
Docket Number: No. 2016-KH-0032
Parties: STATE EX REL. Deadra Anne JAMES v. STATE of Louisiana
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 218
Pages: 93–93

Head Matter:
STATE EX REL. Deadra Anne JAMES v. STATE of Louisiana
No. 2016-KH-0032
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
05/01/2017

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
[ denied. The application was not timely filed in the district court, and relator fails to carry her burden to show that an exception applies. La.C.Cr.P, art. 930.8; State ex rel. Glover v. State, 93-2330 (La. 9/5/95), 660 So.2d 1189. In addition, relator'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.
Relator has now fully litigated at least two applications 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 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.