Case Name: STATE EX REL. Calvin Lopez ALEXANDER v. STATE of Louisiana
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2015-11-06
Citations: 181 So. 3d 698
Docket Number: No. 2015-KH-0227
Parties: STATE EX REL. Calvin Lopez ALEXANDER v. STATE of Louisiana.
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 181
Pages: 698–698

Head Matter:
STATE EX REL. Calvin Lopez ALEXANDER v. STATE of Louisiana.
No. 2015-KH-0227.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
Nov. 6, 2015.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
¡ {Denied. Relator has not identified an illegal term in his sentence, and therefore, his filing is properly construed as an application for post-conviction relief. See State v. Parker, 98-0256 (La.5/8/98), 711 So.2d 694. Relator has failed to set out any claim with the required reasonable particularity, La.C.Cr.P. art. 926(B)(3) or satisfy his burden of proof post-conviction of entitlement to relief. La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.2.
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 La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.4 to make the procedural bars against successive filings mandatory. Relator's claims have now been fully litigated in state collateral proceedings in accord with La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.6, and this denial is final. Hereafter, unless relator 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.