Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Kendrick TAYLOR
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2019-06-03
Citations: 272 So. 3d 888
Docket Number: No. 18-KP-2009
Parties: STATE of Louisiana
v.
Kendrick TAYLOR
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 272
Pages: 888–889

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana
v.
Kendrick TAYLOR
No. 18-KP-2009
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
June 3, 2019
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF WASHINGTON

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).
Relator 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. 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.