State Of Louisiana v. Mark Anthony Morris

Supreme Court of Louisiana
January 14, 2025
Chief Deputy Clerk of Court
For the Court
The Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana
STATE OF LOUISIANA
VS.
MARK ANTHONY MORRIS
No. 2024-KH-01268
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N RE: Mark Morris - Applicant Defendant; Applying For Supervisory Writ, Parish
of East Baton Rouge, 19th Judicial District Court Number(s) 05 -98-0059, Court of
Appeal, First Circuit, Number(s) 2024 KW 0589;
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January 14, 2025
Writ application denied. See per curiam.
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01/14/2025 "See News Release 001 for any Concurrences and/or Dissents."

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UPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA
No.
24-KH-1268
STA
TE OF LOUISIANA
v.
MA
RK ANTHONY MORRIS
ON
SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE NINETEENTH
JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE
P
ER CURIAM:
De
nied. The application was not timely filed in the district court, and
applicant fails to carry his burden to show that an exception applies. La.C.Cr.P. art.
930.8; State ex rel. Glover v. State, 93-2330 (La. 9/5/95), 660 So.2d 1189.
Applicant has now fully litigated several 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. 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.
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