Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Nathan R. DELONG
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2018-08-31
Citations: 251 So. 3d 1063
Docket Number: No. 2017-KP-0840
Parties: STATE of Louisiana
v.
Nathan R. DELONG
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 251
Pages: 1063–1063

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana
v.
Nathan R. DELONG
No. 2017-KP-0840
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
August 31, 2018
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE THIRTY-FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF GRANT

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Denied. Relator fails to show he was denied access to the courts by an arbitrary and unjustified enforcement of the uniform rules governing the filing of applications in the court of appeal, and thus shows no error in the Third Circuit's denial of writs on technical grounds. La.C.Cr.P. art. 912.1(C).
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.