Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Luther ROBERTSON
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2019-03-25
Citations: 266 So. 3d 886
Docket Number: No. 2018-KH-0670
Parties: STATE of Louisiana
v.
Luther ROBERTSON
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 266
Pages: 886–886

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana
v.
Luther ROBERTSON
No. 2018-KH-0670
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
March 25, 2019
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE TWENTY-FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF TANGIPAHOA

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Denied. The application was not timely filed in the district court, and applicant fails to carry his burden to show that an exception applies. La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.8 ; State ex rel. Glover v. State , 93-2330 (La. 9/5/95), 660 So.2d 1189.
Applicant has now fully litigated several applications 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 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. Applicant'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, applicant 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., recused.