Case Name: STATE EX REL. Lakeisha Shanae ADAMS v. STATE of Louisiana
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2018-10-08
Citations: 253 So. 3d 1283
Docket Number: No. 2017-KH-1301
Parties: STATE EX REL. Lakeisha Shanae ADAMS
v.
STATE of Louisiana
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 253
Pages: 1283–1283

Head Matter:
STATE EX REL. Lakeisha Shanae ADAMS
v.
STATE of Louisiana
No. 2017-KH-1301
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
October 8, 2018
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF WASHINGTON

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Denied. The application was not timely filed in the district court, and relator fails to carry her burden to show that an exception applies. La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.8 ; State ex rel. Glover v. State , 93-2330 (La. 9/5/95), 660 So.2d 1189.
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.