The Louisiana Supreme Court has denied former St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain’s request to reverse his 2021 conviction on eight sex crime charges.

The high court’s response to Strain, the parish’s longtime sheriff, was just three words long.

“Writ application denied,” it reads in full.

With the Supreme Court denying this appeal, Strain has exhausted his appeals.

Strain, who led the St. Tammany Sheriff’s Office for two decades before being voted out of office in 2015, was convicted in 2021 on four counts of aggravated rape, two counts of aggravated incest and one count each of sexual battery and indecent behavior with a juvenile. He is currently serving out his sentence at David Wade Correctional Center in Homer.

During the trial, one of Strain’s victims said he was only 10 years old when Strain raped him.

Collin Sims, the interim northshore district attorney who served under Warren Montgomery, who died last year, was the prosecutor in Strain’s trial. His office put out a news release about the Supreme Court’s decision on Wednesday.

Sims is now running to lead the district attorney’s office in a special election that will take place on March 23. His opponent in that race is Vincent Wynne, an attorney who ran against Montgomery in 2020 and lost.

The former sheriff was also sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2022 on a federal bribery charge.

Strains attorney could not immediately be reached for comment.