Case Name: STATE EX REL. Samuel KELLY v. STATE of Louisiana
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2017-10-09
Citations: 227 So. 3d 795
Docket Number: No. 2016-KH-1233
Parties: STATE EX REL. Samuel KELLY v. STATE of Louisiana
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 227
Pages: 795–796

Head Matter:
STATE EX REL. Samuel KELLY v. STATE of Louisiana
No. 2016-KH-1233
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
10/09/2017

Opinion:
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE TWENTY-FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF JEFFERSON
PER CURIAM:
h Relator shows no error in the district court's ruling denying relief.
Relator has how fully litigated' at least three applications 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. 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 col lateral review. The district court is ordered to record a minute entry consistent with this per curiam.