State Of Louisiana v. Anthony Barton Fortune

Supreme Court of Louisiana
March 09, 2021
Chief Deputy Clerk of Court
For the Court
The Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana
STATE OF LOUISIANA
VS.
ANTHONY BARTON FORTUNE
No.2020-KP-01496
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IN R
E: Anthony Fortune - Applicant Defendant; Applying For Supervisory Writ,
Parish of St. Tammany, 22nd Judicial District Court Number(s) 581199, 1st Circuit
Court of Appeal, Number(s) 2020 KW 0829;
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March 09, 2021
Writ application denied. See per curiam.
WJC
JLW
JDH
SJC
JTG
JBM
PDG
03/09/2021 "See News Release 009 for any Concurrences and/or Dissents."

03/09/21
S
UPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA
No
. 20-KP-1496
S
TATE OF LOUISIANA
v.
ANT
HONY BARTON FORTUNE
O
N SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE TWENTY-SECOND
JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ST. TAMMANY
PE
R CURIAM:
D
enied. Applicant fails to show that he was denied the effective assistance
of counsel during plea negotiations 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 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.