Key legal question
Whether the applicant was entitled to free legal aid and appointed counsel for the state-liability action
Extracted holding
No. The request was rejected because the action was manifestly hopeless.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that the challenged claims were plainly barred and could not succeed, in particular because the applicant could not relitigate the final criminal-cassation judgment under Art. 12 VG and because the claims were also treated as time-barred under Art. 20 VG.