State Of Louisiana v. Michael Thomas Collins

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.
MICHAEL THOMAS COLLINS
No. 2025-KH-00107
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IN
RE: Michael Thomas Collins - Applicant Defendant; Applying For Supervisory
Writ, Parish of Livingston, 21st Judicial District Court Number(s) 38426, Court of
Appeal, First Circuit, Number(s) 2024 KW 1039;
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May 20, 2025
Writ application denied. See per curiam.
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05/20/2025 "See News Release 024 for any Concurrences and/or Dissents."

SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA
No. 25-KH-0107
STATE OF LOUISIANA
v.
MICHAEL THOMAS COLLINS
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE TWENTY-FIRST
JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF LIVINGSTON
PER CURIAM:
Denied. Applicant 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 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.