Case Name: STATE ex rel. Robert WILLIAMS v. STATE of Louisiana
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2016-05-20
Citations: 191 So. 3d 1010
Docket Number: No. 2015-KH-1152
Parties: STATE ex rel. Robert WILLIAMS v. STATE of Louisiana.
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 191
Pages: 1010–1015

Head Matter:
STATE ex rel. Robert WILLIAMS v. STATE of Louisiana.
No. 2015-KH-1152.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
May 20, 2016.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
h 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). Additionally, relator fails to show the state withheld material exculpatory evidence in violation of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 83 S.Ct. 1194, 10 L,Ed.2d 215 (1963). Relator's remaining claims are repetitive and/or unsupported. La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.2; La.C,Cr.P. art. 930.4. We attach hereto and make a part hereof the District Court's written reasons denying relator's application.
Relator has now fully litigated his appli-' cation 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 niow been fully litigated- in accord with La.C.Cr.P: art. 930.6, and this denial is final. Hereafter, unless he can 12show 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.
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