JUSTICE, TOO MUCH AND TOO EXPENSIVE: Joe Hoffman and Nancy King on Habeas Corpus. “Federal habeas review of noncapital state criminal cases is unnecessary, because state courts now do the vast majority of that work. Worse, the misuse of habeas as one more round of appeal in routine state criminal cases will eventually cheapen habeas’s currency. . . . The question is not how much review it might take to achieve perfect compliance with constitutional rules governing criminal cases, because that’s a goal we can’t reach. The question, instead, is how much review makes sense before it becomes a wasteful, possibly harmful, endeavor.”