Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Honore ESTES
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2019-01-14
Citations: 260 So. 3d 1209
Docket Number: No. 2017-KP-1654
Parties: STATE of Louisiana
v.
Honore ESTES
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 260
Pages: 1209–1210

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana
v.
Honore ESTES
No. 2017-KP-1654
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
January 14, 2019
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE TWENTY-FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF JEFFERSON

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Denied. Relator fails to show that she 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 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. 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 she can show that one of the narrow exceptions authorizing the filing of a successive application applies, relator has exhausted her right to state collateral review. The district court is ordered to record a minute entry consistent with this per curiam.