State Of Louisiana v. Mark Cooper

Supreme Court of Louisiana
November 12, 2025
Chief Deputy Clerk of Court
For the Court
The Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana
STATE OF LOUISIANA
VS.
MARK COOPER
No. 2025-KH-00974
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IN
RE: Mark Cooper - Applicant Defendant; Applying For Supervisory Writ, Parish
of St. Tammany, 22nd Judicial District Court Number(s) 301482, Court of Appeal,
First Circuit, Number(s) 2024 KW 1205;
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November 12, 2025
Writ application denied. See per curiam.
Griffin, J., would deny on the showing made.
Guidry, J., would deny on the showing made.
JLW
JDH
WJC
JBM
CRC
11/12/2025 "See News Release 050 for any Concurrences and/or Dissents."

SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA
No. 25-KH-0974
STATE OF LOUISIANA
v.
MARK COOPER
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE TWENTY-SECOND
JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ST. TAMMANY
PER CURIAM:
Denied. The application is repetitive. La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.4.
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 right to state collateral
review. The district court is ordered to record a minute entry consistent with this
per curiam.