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Halbert v. Michigan
Halbert v. Michigan
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 25, 2005; Decided June 23, 2005
Full case name	Antonio Dwayne Halbert v. Michigan
Citations	545 U.S. 605 (more) 125 S. Ct. 2582; 162 L. Ed. 2d 552
Holding
	A Michigan law denying an appeals public defender to those who have pleaded guilty violated rights to due process and equal protection
Court membership
	Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor; Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy; David Souter · Clarence Thomas; Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	Ginsburg, joined by Stevens, O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter, Breyer
Dissent	Thomas, joined by Rehnquist, Scalia
Laws applied
	U.S. Const. amend. XIV

Halbert v. Michigan, 545 U.S. 605 (2005), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a Michigan law (Mich. Comp. Laws Ann. § 770.3a (West 2000)), which denied public counsel for defendants appealing a conviction on a plea, violated the equal protection and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.^[1] In a majority opinion written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Court affirmed that "a State is required to appoint counsel for an indigent defendant's first-tier appeal as of right."^[2]