Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Sean Bernard NEWTON
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2016-07-11
Citations: 197 So. 3d 161
Docket Number: No. 2016-KP-1264
Parties: STATE of Louisiana v. Sean Bernard NEWTON.
Judges: WEIMER, J., concurs in the denial of the writs.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 197
Pages: 161–162

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana v. Sean Bernard NEWTON.
No. 2016-KP-1264.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
July 11, 2016.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
| denied. Relator fails to show 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). We attach hereto and make a part hereof the District Court's and the Court of Appeal's written reasons for denying relator's application.
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 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.
WEIMER, J., concurs in the denial of the writs.
CRICHTON, J., additionally concurs and assigns reasons.