Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Teddy R. MAGEE
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2018-03-09
Citations: 237 So. 3d 1182
Docket Number: No. 2016–KP–2254
Parties: STATE of Louisiana
v.
Teddy R. MAGEE
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 237
Pages: 1182–1182

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana
v.
Teddy R. MAGEE
No. 2016-KP-2254
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
March 9, 2018
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ORLEANS

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
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). Relator's remaining claims are repetitive. La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.4(A) ; see also State v. Lee , 14-2374, pp. 8-9 (La. 9/18/15), 181 So.3d 631, 638 (an "attempt to re-litigate a claim that has been previously disposed of, by couching it as a post-conviction ineffective assistance of counsel claim, [should be] generally unavailing").
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.