Supreme Court of Louisiana, 2016

State ex rel. Wix v. State

State ex rel. Wix v. State
Supreme Court of Louisiana · Decided September 6, 2016
198 So. 3d 125; 2016 La. LEXIS 1648; 2016 WL 4625562 (Southern Reporter, Third Series)

State ex rel. Wix v. State

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

| ] Denied. The sentences imposed fall within the parameters of the sentencing statutes. See R.S. 14:64; cf. La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.3; State ex rel. Melinie v. State, 93-1380 (La.1/12/96), 665 So.2d 1172; La. C.Cr.P. art. 882.

Relator has now fully litigated two applications 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. 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 *126is ordered to record a minute entry consistent with this per curiam.

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