State Of Louisiana v. Douglas Ahmed Augustus

Supreme Court of Louisiana
September 16, 2025
Chief Deputy Clerk of Court
For the Court
The Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana
STATE OF LOUISIANA
VS.
DOUGLAS AHMED AUGUSTUS
No. 2025-KP-00073
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N RE: Douglas Ahmed Augustus - Applicant Defendant; Applying For Supervisory
Writ, Parish of East Baton Rouge, 19th Judicial District Court Number(s) 09 -05-
0001, Court of Appeal, First Circuit, Number(s) 2024 KW 1001;
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September 16, 2025
Writ application denied. See per curiam.
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JLW
JDH
WJC
JBM
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CRC
09/16/2025 "See News Release 041 for any Concurrences and/or Dissents."

S
UPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA
No.
25-KP-0073
STA
TE OF LOUISIANA
v.
DO
UGLAS AHMED AUGUSTUS
ON
SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE NINETEENTH
JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE
P
ER CURIAM:
De
nied. Applicant fails to show that he was denied the effective assistance
of counsel during plea negotiations under the standard of Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (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.