Case Name: STATE EX REL. Marshall WHITLEY v. STATE of Louisiana
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2018-02-02
Citations: 234 So. 3d 876
Docket Number: No. 2016-KH-1851
Parties: STATE EX REL. Marshall WHITLEY v. STATE of Louisiana
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 234
Pages: 876–877

Head Matter:
STATE EX REL. Marshall WHITLEY v. STATE of Louisiana
No. 2016-KH-1851
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
2/2/2018

Opinion:
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ORLEANS
PER CURIAM:
| denied. Relator does not identify an illegal term in his sentence, and therefore, his filing is properly construed as an application for post-conviction relief. See State v. Parker, 98-0256 (La. 6/8/98), 711 So.2d 694. As such, it is subject to the time limitation set forth in La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.8. Relator's application was not timely filed in the district court,«and he fails to carry his 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. The application is also repetitive. La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.4.
Relator has now fully litigated several 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 |ahas exhausted his right to state collateral review. The district court is ordered to record a minute entry consistent with this per curiam. .