Case Name: STATE EX REL. Jerry Vaughn CLIFTON v. STATE of Louisiana
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2017-09-29
Citations: 227 So. 3d 247
Docket Number: No. 2016-KH-1086
Parties: STATE EX REL. Jerry Vaughn CLIFTON v. STATE of Louisiana
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 227
Pages: 247–250

Head Matter:
STATE EX REL. Jerry Vaughn CLIFTON v. STATE of Louisiana
No. 2016-KH-1086
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
9/29/2017

Opinion:
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE THIRTIETH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF VERNON
PER CURIAM:
| ¶ Denied. Relator fails to show any error in the district court's ruling. We attach hereto and make a part hereof the district court's written reasons denying relief.
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 successive application only under the nar row 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 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
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