Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Duvander HURST
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2018-10-15
Citations: 254 So. 3d 680
Docket Number: No. 2018-KP-0470
Parties: STATE of Louisiana
v.
Duvander HURST
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 254
Pages: 680–680

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana
v.
Duvander HURST
No. 2018-KP-0470
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
October 15, 2018
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ORLEANS

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Denied. Relator fails to show any error in the rulings of the courts below.
Defendant has now fully litigated three applications 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. Defendant's claims have now been fully litigated in accord with La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.6. Hereafter, unless he can show that one of the narrow exceptions authorizing the filing of a successive application applies, defendant has exhausted his right to state collateral review. The district court is ordered to record a minute entry consistent with this per curiam.