Court Opinion

ID: 9404133
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-06-22 11:05:30.916185+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:20:11.993150
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STATE OF LOUISIANA

                 COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT

STATE       OF    LOUISIANA                                                            NO.      2023      KW    0334

VERSUS

WALTER       A.    KOTT,       JR.                                                     JUNE         20,    2023

In    Re:          Walter       A.    Kott,       Jr.,        applying        for      supervisory             writs,

                   22nd        Judicial      District          Court,        Parish        of      St.     Tammany,
                   No.    378041.

BEFORE:            GUIDRY,        C. J.,    McCLENDON AND            WELCH,         JJ.

        WRIT       DENIED.           The    medical           report      offered            in     the        instant
application              for    postconviction                relief     in    support             of     relator'      s

factual           innocence           claim       does        not      constitute             new         evidence.

Therefore,          relator has             failed to         point     to    any new,            reliable,          and

noncumulative              evidence          to        substantiate           his      claim         of        factual
innocence.          See     La.      Code    Crim.       P.   art.     926. 2 ( B) .       The      other       claims
in    the    application             for    postconviction             relief        do      not    meet       any     of
the    enumerated              exceptions         to    La.    Code     Crim.        P.'     art.       930. 8    time
bar.        Accordingly,              the     district              court      did           not        abuse        its

discretion by denying the application for postconviction relief.

                                                         JMG
                                                         PMC
                                                         JEW

 OURT       OF    APPEAL,       FIRST      CIRCUIT

                   FOR    THE     COURT