Key legal question
Whether the complainant was entitled to free legal counsel to improve his constitutional complaint.
Extracted holding
No; the case was not complex, the threatened sentence was minor, and he was capable of safeguarding his rights without appointed counsel.
Extracted reasoning
Because the complaint was filed very late in the time limit, appointing counsel could not have enabled a timely supplementation; in any event, Art. 29(3) BV did not require counsel in a simple, low-stakes case.