Case Name: STATE EX REL. Robert Stanley LANE, Jr. v. STATE of Louisiana
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2018-11-14
Citations: 256 So. 3d 267
Docket Number: No. 2017-KH-1639
Parties: STATE EX REL. Robert Stanley LANE, Jr.
v.
STATE of Louisiana
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 256
Pages: 267–268

Head Matter:
STATE EX REL. Robert Stanley LANE, Jr.
v.
STATE of Louisiana
No. 2017-KH-1639
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
November 14, 2018
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ST. TAMMANY

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Denied. Relator 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). Further, relator makes no showing of particularized need for the trial transcript or other supporting documentation. See State ex rel. Bernard v. Cr.D.C. , 94-2247 (La. 4/28/95), 653 So.2d 1174.
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 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 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.