Case Name: STATE EX REL. Ronald C. DALE v. STATE of Louisiana
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2018-10-08
Citations: 253 So. 3d 1287
Docket Number: No. 2017-KH-1168
Parties: STATE EX REL. Ronald C. DALE
v.
STATE of Louisiana
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 253
Pages: 1287–1287

Head Matter:
STATE EX REL. Ronald C. DALE
v.
STATE of Louisiana
No. 2017-KH-1168
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
October 8, 2018
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF CADDO

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Denied. Relator 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). Relator's remaining claims are repetitive. La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.4.
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 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.
Crichton, J., recused.