Opinion
2021-KH-00111
09-27-2021
STATE OF LOUISIANA v. LARRY BICKHAM
Larry Bickham - Applicant Defendant; Applying For Supervisory Writ, Parish of St. Tammany, 22nd Judicial District Court Number(s) 567, 022, 1st Circuit Court of Appeal, Number(s) 2020 KW 0535;
Writ application denied. See per curiam.
WJC
JLW
SJC
JTG
JBM
PDG Hughes, J., would grant.
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ST. TAMMANY
PER CURIAM
Denied. Applicant shows no lower court error.
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.