Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Tara HUNTER
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2019-04-22
Citations: 267 So. 3d 1106
Docket Number: No. 2018-KH-0566
Parties: STATE of Louisiana
v.
Tara HUNTER
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 267
Pages: 1106–1106

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana
v.
Tara HUNTER
No. 2018-KH-0566
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
April 22, 2019
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE TWENTY-FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF LIVINGSTON

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Denied. Applicant shows no lower court error.
Applicant has now fully litigated her 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. 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 she can show that one of the narrow exceptions authorizing the filing of a successive application applies, applicant has exhausted her right to state collateral review. The district court is ordered to record a minute entry consistent with this per curiam.