Key legal question
Whether the cantonal court could decide the legal-aid request through a single judge/instruction judge
Extracted holding
That approach was not arbitrary; deciding legal aid as a procedural order by the instruction judge is tenable.
Extracted reasoning
The Federal Supreme Court held that, under the summary procedure for legal aid, it is defensible to qualify the decision as a procedural order issued by the instruction judge, and the appellant showed no contrary cantonal rule.