State Of Louisiana v. Kenneth W. Harper

Supreme Court of Louisiana
November 19, 2025
Chief Deputy Clerk of Court
For the Court
The Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana
STATE OF LOUISIANA
VS.
KENNETH W. HARPER
No. 2025-KH-00902
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N RE: Kenneth W. Harper - Applicant Defendant; Applying For Supervisory Writ,
Parish of Caddo, 1st Judicial District Court Number(s) 340,040, Court of Appeal,
Second Circuit, Number(s) 56,483-KH;
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November 19, 2025
Writ application denied. See per curiam.
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SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA
No. 25-KH-0902
STATE OF LOUISIANA
v.
KENNETH W. HARPER
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE FIRST
JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF CADDO
PER CURIAM:
Denied. Despite the caption of his pleading in the district court, to the extent
that applicant contests the validity of his conviction and sentence, he has presented
an application for post -conviction relief. See State ex rel. Curry v. State , 2017 -
0737 (La. 8/3/18), 250 So.3d 261. As such, 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 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 manda tory. 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

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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.