Case Name: STATE EX REL. Kendale SCOTT v. STATE of Louisiana
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2018-02-09
Citations: 235 So. 3d 1095
Docket Number: No. 2016-KH-2007
Parties: STATE EX REL. Kendale SCOTT v. STATE of Louisiana
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 235
Pages: 1095–1095

Head Matter:
STATE EX REL. Kendale SCOTT v. STATE of Louisiana
No. 2016-KH-2007
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
2/9/2018

Opinion:
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE TWENTIETH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF EAST FELICIANA
PER CURIAM:
| ] Denied. Relator fails to show that 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 limita^-tions 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 succéssive 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.