State v. Cuccia

Writ granted. In 2004, an Orleans Parish jury found petitioner guilty as charged of manslaughter, and the trial court later sentenced him as a third-felony offender to 30 years imprisonment at hard labor. The conviction and sentence were affirmed on direct review. See State v. Cuccia , 05-0807 (La. App. 4 Cir. 3/15/06), 933 So.2d 134, writ denied , 06-0903 (La. 10/27/06), 939 So.2d 1273.

In 2007, petitioner filed in the district court a timely application for post-conviction relief, which he supplemented in 2015 with the district court's approval. See State ex rel. Benn v. State , 11-2418 (La.…