Opinion
No. 19-KP-1417
04-27-2020
STATE OF LOUISIANA v. JWAN BICKHAM
IN RE: Jwan Bickham - Applicant Defendant; Applying For Supervisory Writ, Parish of St. Tammany, 22nd Judicial District Court Number(s) 590,232, Court of Appeal, First Circuit, Number(s) 2019 KW 0714; April 27, 2020 Writ application denied. See per curiam.
WJC
JLW
JDH
SJC
JTG
JHB
Supreme Court of Louisiana
April 27, 2020 /s/_________
Clerk of Court
For the Court ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ST. TAMMANY PER CURIAM:
Denied. Applicant fails to show that he was denied the effective assistance of counsel during plea negotiations under the standard of Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984).
Applicant 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. Applicant'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, applicant has exhausted his right to state collateral review. The district court is ordered to record a minute entry consistent with this per curiam.