State Of Louisiana v. James Ronald Franks

Supreme Court of Louisiana
October 07, 2025
Chief Deputy Clerk of Court
For the Court
The Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana
STATE OF LOUISIANA
VS.
JAMES RONALD FRANKS
No. 2025-KH-00274
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N RE: James Ronald Franks - Applicant Defendant; Applying For Supervisory
Writ, Parish of Bossier, 26th Judicial District Court Number(s) 69,164, Court of
Appeal, Second Circuit, Number(s) 56,254-KH;
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October 07, 2025
Writ application denied. See per curiam.
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10/07/2025 "See News Release 044 for any Concurrences and/or Dissents."

SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA
No. 25-KH-0274
STATE OF LOUISIANA
v.
JAMES RONALD FRANKS
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE TWENTY-SIXTH
JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF BOSSIER
PER CURIAM:
Denied. Applicant fails to satisfy his post -conviction burden of
proof. La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.2.
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.