Clerk of Court For the Court State Of Louisiana v. Cecil Ray Beals

The Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana
Clerk of Court
For the Court
STATE OF LOUISIANA
VS.
CECIL RAY BEALS
No.2019-KH-01517
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IN RE: Cecil Ray Beals - Applicant Defendant; Applying For Supervisory Writ,
Parish of Ascension, 23rd Judicial District Court Number(s) 310278, Court of
Appeal, First Circuit, Number(s) 2019 KW 0570;
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uly 31, 2020
Writ application denied. See per curiam.
SJC
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Supreme Court of Louisiana
July 31, 2020
07/31/2020 "See News Release 028 for any Concurrences and/or Dissents."

07/31/20
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UPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA
No
. 19-KH-1517
S
TATE OF LOUISIANA
v.
CE
CIL RAY BEALS
O
N SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE TWENTY-THIRD
JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ASCENSION
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R CURIAM:
De
nied. Appli cant fails to show that he received ineffective assistance of
counsel 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 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, an d 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.