Case Name: STATE EX REL. Jose MENDEZ v. STATE of Louisiana
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2017-09-22
Citations: 226 So. 3d 1088
Docket Number: No. 16-KH-0962
Parties: STATE EX REL. Jose MENDEZ v. STATE of Louisiana
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 226
Pages: 1088–1094

Head Matter:
STATE EX REL. Jose MENDEZ v. STATE of Louisiana
No. 16-KH-0962
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
09/22/2017

Opinion:
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE TWENTY-FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF JEFFERSON
PER CURIAM:
| j Denied. Relator fails to show 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). As to the remaining claims, relator shows no error in the thorough analysis of the courts below. We attach hereto and make a part hereof the district court's written reasons denying relief.
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.
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