Opinion
No. 18-KH-0072
01-14-2019
STATE of Louisiana v. Victor LOVE
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF CADDO
PER CURIAM:
Denied. Relator's complaint about the indictment fails because the time for testing the sufficiency of an indictment or bill of information is before trial, by way of a motion to quash or a motion for a bill of particulars. State v. Thibodeaux , 98-1673, p. 18 (La. 9/8/99), 750 So.2d 916, 930 (La. 1999) (citing State v. Gainey , 376 So.2d 1240, 1243 (La. 1979) ); cf. State v. Williams , 480 So.2d 721, 722, n.1 (La. 1985) (post-verdict attacks on indictment generally fail unless the indictment did not provide fair notice of the offense charged or failed to set forth any identifiable offense).
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 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.