Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Jeffery Keith THURMAN
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2019-05-28
Citations: 274 So. 3d 563
Docket Number: No. 2018-KH-1673
Parties: STATE of Louisiana
v.
Jeffery Keith THURMAN
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 274
Pages: 563–563

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana
v.
Jeffery Keith THURMAN
No. 2018-KH-1673
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
May 28, 2019
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF LINCOLN

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Denied. The application was not timely filed in the district court, and applicant fails to carry his burden to show that an exception applies. La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.8 ; State ex rel. Glover v. State , 93-2330 (La. 9/5/95), 660 So.2d 1189. In addition, his 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 ; see also State v. Cotton , 09-2397 (La. 10/15/10), 45 So.3d 1030. His claims are also repetitive. La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.4.
Applicant has now fully litigated another 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. Applicant'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, applicant 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 the writ.