
    STATE EX REL. Wesley James MONROE v. STATE of Louisiana
    No. 2016-KH-1615
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    11/17/2017
   ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF LAFAYETTE

PER CURIAM:

It 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 fails to satisfy his post-conviction burden of proof. La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.2.

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-conyiction - 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 aceord 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 in part.  