Case Name: STATE ex rel. Antoine WILLIAMS v. STATE of Louisiana
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2015-10-23
Citations: 177 So. 3d 1054
Docket Number: No. 2014-KH-2628
Parties: STATE ex rel. Antoine WILLIAMS v. STATE of Louisiana.
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 177
Pages: 1054–1054

Head Matter:
STATE ex rel. Antoine WILLIAMS v. STATE of Louisiana.
No. 2014-KH-2628.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
Oct. 23, 2015.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
| denied. Relator's application is untimely filed. La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.8; State ex rel. Glover v. State, 93-2330 (La.9/5/95), 660 So.2d 1189.
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 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 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.