
    STATE EX REL. Leroy JACKSON, Jr. v. STATE of Louisiana
    No. 2015-KH-1498
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    09/23/2016
   PER CURIAM:

| denied. Relator fails to show he pled guilty involuntarily or any basis for disturbing the sentences imposed pursuant to a negotiated plea bargain. See La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.2; La.C.Cr.P. art. 881.2(A)(2). We attach hereto and make a part hereof the Court of Appeal’s written reasons denying writs.

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 La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.4 to make the procedural bars against successive filings mandatory. Relator’s claims have now been fully litigated in state collateral proceedings in accord with La. C.Cr.P. art. 930.6, and this denial is final. Hereafter, unless relator 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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