Case Name: STATE EX REL. Marty HEBERT v. STATE of Louisiana
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2017-08-04
Citations: 222 So. 3d 702
Docket Number: No. 2016-KH-1104
Parties: STATE EX REL. Marty HEBERT v. STATE of Louisiana
Judges: Johnson, C.J. n.s.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 222
Pages: 702–702

Head Matter:
STATE EX REL. Marty HEBERT v. STATE of Louisiana
No. 2016-KH-1104
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
8/04/2017

Opinion:
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ST. MARY
PER CURIAM:
| denied. State ex rel. Fleury v. State, 93-2898 (La. 10/13/96), 661 So.2d 488.
Relator has exhausted his right to obtain 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. 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.
Johnson, C.J. n.s.