Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Warren CIRAVOLA
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2019-05-20
Citations: 271 So. 3d 1266
Docket Number: No. 2018-KH-1019
Parties: STATE of Louisiana
v.
Warren CIRAVOLA
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 271
Pages: 1266–1266

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana
v.
Warren CIRAVOLA
No. 2018-KH-1019
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
May 20, 2019
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF WASHINGTON

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Denied. Applicant 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), and he fails to show a particularized need for the requested documents. State ex rel. Bernard v. Cr.D.C. , 94-2247 (La. 4/28/95), 653 So.2d 1174. His remaining claims are repetitive. La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.4.
Applicant 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 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. Applicant'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, applicant has exhausted his right to state collateral review. The district court is ordered to record a minute entry consistent with this per curiam.
Hughes, J., would grant.