Case Name: STATE EX REL. Winford Lagard MCFARLAND, Sr. v. STATE of Louisiana
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2018-03-02
Citations: 237 So. 3d 500
Docket Number: No. 2016–KH–2239
Parties: STATE EX REL. Winford Lagard MCFARLAND, Sr.
v.
STATE of Louisiana
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 237
Pages: 500–500

Head Matter:
STATE EX REL. Winford Lagard MCFARLAND, Sr.
v.
STATE of Louisiana
No. 2016-KH-2239
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
March 2, 2018
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ST. TAMMANY

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Denied. Relator shows no lower court error. La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.2 ; State v. McKinney , 406 So.2d 160, 161 (La. 1981) ("The general rule is that a guilty plea waives all nonjurisdictional defects in the proceedings prior to the plea and precludes review thereof either by appeal or by post-conviction remedy."). In addition, relator's sentencing claim is not cognizable on collateral review. La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.3 ; State ex rel. Melinie v. State , 93-1380 (La. 1/12/96), 665 So.2d 1172.
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.