Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Glenn METZ
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2018-02-09
Citations: 235 So. 3d 1092
Docket Number: No. 2016-KP-1930
Parties: STATE of Louisiana v. Glenn METZ
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 235
Pages: 1092–1092

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana v. Glenn METZ
No. 2016-KP-1930
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
2/9/2018

Opinion:
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE COURT OF APPEAL, FOURTH CIRCUIT, PARISH OF ORLEANS
PER CURIAM:
| ^Denied. Relator fails to show that the district court erred in resolving his claim without conducting an evidentiary hearing. See La.C.Cr.P. art. 929(A); State ex rel. Tassin v. Whitley, 602 So.2d 721, 722 (La. 1992); see also Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984).
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 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. The district court is ordered to record a minute entry consistent with this per curiam.