Since 2001, Antonio Dwayne Halbert has tried to get the state of Michigan to assign him an attorney to appeal the length of his 30-year sentence. Michigan is the only state with a law barring the state from paying for appeals for indigent defendants who plead guilty. David Moran, a Wayne State University law professor representing Halbert, said the law has created separate systems of justice - one for the rich, another for the poor. "It has no impact whatsoever on the wealthy and it is aimed at the indigent," Moran said.