
    STATE EX REL. Brandon J. OFFICE v. STATE of Louisiana
    No. 2016-KH-1475
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    11/28/2017
   ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE THIRTIETH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF VERNON

PER CURIAM:

| denied. Relator knowingly and intelligently waived his right to a trial by jury. See La.C.Cr.P. arts. 780(A) & 782(B). He also shows no error or abuse of discretion in the district court’s dismissal of his remaining claims on procedural grounds. See La.C.Cr,P. art. 930.4,

Relator has now fully litigated his application for post-conviction relief in state court. Similar to federal habeas relief, see 28 U.S.G. § 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.

Hughes, J., would grant.  