Case Name: STATE EX REL. Andora Y. HUDSON v. STATE of Louisiana
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2017-08-04
Citations: 222 So. 3d 703
Docket Number: No. 2016-KH-0665
Parties: STATE EX REL. Andora Y. HUDSON v. STATE of Louisiana
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 222
Pages: 703–703

Head Matter:
STATE EX REL. Andora Y. HUDSON v. STATE of Louisiana
No. 2016-KH-0665
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
8/04/2017

Opinion:
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ORLEANS
PER CURIAM:
| t Denied. Relator's application was not timely filed in the district court, and she 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 claims are 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; State v. Cotton, 09-2397 (La. 10/15/10), 45 So.3d 1030.
Relator has now fully litigated 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 |2applies, relator has exhausted her right to state collateral review. The district court is ordered to record a minute entry consistent with this per curiam.