Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Damien HALL
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2017-11-17
Citations: 228 So. 3d 1208
Docket Number: No. 2016-KP-1004
Parties: STATE of Louisiana v. Damien HALL
Judges: HUGHES, J., would grant.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 228
Pages: 1208–1209

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana v. Damien HALL
No. 2016-KP-1004
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
11/17/2017

Opinion:
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE TWENTY-THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ASCENSION
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 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 La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.4 to make the procedural bars against successive filings mandatory. Relator'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, relator has exhausted his right to state collateral review. The district court is ordered to record a minute entry consistent with this per curiam.
HUGHES, J., would grant.