Key legal question
Whether the refusal of legal aid for the criminal defense violated the constitutional minimum of legal aid under Art. 29 para. 3 Cst.
Extracted holding
No. The appellant remained able to cover the criminal-proceeding costs from monthly disposable income, so the constitutional minimum was respected.
Extracted reasoning
The federal court reviewed the legal criteria freely but the cantonal factual findings only for arbitrariness. It accepted the exclusion of ordinary debt amortization from necessary living expenses and held that prior civil legal aid did not automatically extend to a separate, simpler criminal case.