Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2011
ISSN
0022-5800
Publisher
American Judicature Society
Language
en-US
Abstract
Take it from me. The one job you don't want is sorting out federal habeas corpus. By all accounts, existing arrangements are an unrelieved disaster. Yet now come Nancy King and Joseph Hoffmann with a valiant effort to set things in order. Their book describes habeas corpus as the writ currently stands, offers explanations of why and how we have come to this pass, and, most important, advances a definite plan of action for habeas in criminal cases-a way to fix what so desperately needs fixing. This is a good book, a valuable book. It is informative, essentially accurate in its presentation of objective data, and scrupulously honest in its advocacy of controversial policy.
Recommended Citation
Larry Yackle,
Untangling the Twists of Habeas Corpus
,
in
95
Judicature
90
(2011).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/1964
