State Of Louisiana v. Jerome Bergeron

Supreme Court of Louisiana
May 20, 2025
Chief Deputy Clerk of Court
For the Court
The Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana
STATE OF LOUISIANA
VS.
JEROME BERGERON
No. 2024-KP-01329
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N RE: Jerome Bergeron - Applicant Defendant; Applying For Supervisory Writ,
Parish of Lafourche, 17th Judicial District Court Number(s) 246595, Court of
Appeal, First Circuit, Number(s) 2024 KW 0783;
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May 20, 2025
Writ application denied. See per curiam.
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SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA
No. 24-KP-1329
STATE OF LOUISIANA
v.
JEROME BERGERON
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE SEVENTEENTH
JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF LAFOURCHE
PER CURIAM:
Denied. Applicant fails to show he was denied access to the courts by an
arbitrary and unjustified enforcement of the uniform rules governing the filing of
applications in the court of appeal and thus shows no error.
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, 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.