State Of Louisiana v. Bruce Philip Maquar, Jr.

Supreme Court of Louisiana
September 26, 2023
Chief Deputy Clerk of Court
For the Court
The Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana
STATE OF LOUISIANA
VS.
BRUCE PHILIP MAQUAR, JR.
No. 2023-KH-00337
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IN
RE: Bruce P. Maquar, Jr. - Applicant Defendant; Applying For Supervisory Writ,
Parish of St. Tammany, 22nd Judicial District Court Number(s) 3279-F-2020, Court
of Appeal, First Circuit, Number(s) 2022 KW 1161;
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September 26, 2023
Writ application denied. See per curiam.
JTG
JLW
JDH
SJC
WJC
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PDG
09/26/2023 "See News Release 041 for any Concurrences and/or Dissents."

S
UPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA
No.
23-KH-0337
STA
TE OF LOUISIANA
v.
B
RUCE PHILIP MAQUAR, JR.
ON
SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE TWENTY-SECOND
JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ST. TAMMANY
P
ER CURIAM:
De
nied. 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). The application is also
repetitive. La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.4.
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 narr ow 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. A pplicant’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.
09/26/23