Case Name: STATE EX REL. John A. DAVIS v. STATE of Louisiana
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2018-02-09
Citations: 235 So. 3d 1097
Docket Number: No. 2016-KH-1789
Parties: STATE EX REL. John A. DAVIS v. STATE of Louisiana
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 235
Pages: 1097–1098

Head Matter:
STATE EX REL. John A. DAVIS v. STATE of Louisiana
No. 2016-KH-1789
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
2/9/2018

Opinion:
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE FORTY-SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF DE-SOTO
PER CURIAM:
| denied. The application was not timely filed in the district court, and relator 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.
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 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 20Í3 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.