Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Joseph HUMBLES
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2019-05-20
Citations: 271 So. 3d 1265
Docket Number: No. 2019-KP-0024
Parties: STATE of Louisiana
v.
Joseph HUMBLES
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 271
Pages: 1265–1265

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana
v.
Joseph HUMBLES
No. 2019-KP-0024
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
May 20, 2019
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE TWENTY-FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF JEFFERSON

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Denied. Applicant fails to show that 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).
Applicant 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 2013 La. Acts 251 amended La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.4 to make the procedural bars against successive filings mandatory. Applicant's claims have now been fully litigated in state collateral proceedings 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.