COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT NO. 2024 KW 1229 STATE OF LOUISIANA

VERSUS FEBRUARY 24, 2025 WESLEY S. RICKS

for 20th Ricks, supervisory writs, In Re: Wesley S. applying Parish of West Feliciana, No. Judicial District Court, 24- WCR- 407.

LANIER AND BALFOUR, JJ.

BEFORE: McCLENDON, C. J.,

nature is determined by its WRITDENIED. A pleading' s Mormon v. Caldwell, 2010- 0968 ( La. substance and not its caption. writ 12/ 22/ 10), 2010 WL 5465619, * 3( unpublished) , App. 1st Cir. 76 So. 3d 1164. Although relator denied, 2011- 0162 ( La. 12/ 2/ 11), Application for Habeas Corpus," the captioned his pleading as an " remedy he seeks is in the nature of a request 924( 1). forThis postconviction has court relief. See La. Code Crim. P. art. contest the corpus is not available to consistently held habeas Rather, sentence set aside. validity of a conviction or to have a relief. claims are considered requests for post -conviction such Corr., 2023- 0524 ( La. Runnels v. Louisiana Dept of Pub. Safety & 2023 WL 7402418 ( unpublished), writ denied, App. 1st Cir. 11/ 9/ 23) , So. 3d 246. Applications for 2023- 01338 ( La. 1/ 17/ 24), 377 postconviction relief shall be filed in the parish in which the Code Crim. P. art. 925. Relator was petitioner was convicted. La. convicted in Morehouse Parish, but filed his petition for habeas Accordingly, the district court corpus in West Feliciana Parish. petition. Relator should file his denied relator' s correctly Judicial District Court, which is the with the Fourth pleading proper venue.

PMC WIL KEB

COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT

DEPUTY CLERK OF COURT FOR THE COURT