Case Name: STATE EX REL. Richard Dale KUHN v. STATE of Louisiana
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2017-10-27
Citations: 228 So. 3d 199
Docket Number: No. 2016-KH-1333
Parties: STATE EX REL. Richard Dale KUHN v. STATE of Louisiana
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 228
Pages: 199–200

Head Matter:
STATE EX REL. Richard Dale KUHN v. STATE of Louisiana
No. 2016-KH-1333
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
10/27/2017

Opinion:
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF WASHINGTON
PER CURIAM:
liDenied. Relator 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); see also 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 fling 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 flings 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, re lator has exhausted his right to state collateral review. The district court is ordered to record a minute entry consistent with this per curiam.