Citations 545 U.S. 605 (more) | ||
Full case name Antonio Dwayne Halbert v. Michigan Majority Ginsburg, joined by Stevens, O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter, Breyer Dissent Thomas, joined by Scalia, Rehnquist | ||
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, 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. 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."
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