Key legal question
Whether the refusal of free legal aid violated Art. 29(3) BV because the complainant had sufficiently shown indigence.
Extracted holding
The complainant did not prove that he lacked the means to finance the case; the cantonal court could rely on the available property and financial data and was not obliged to assume indigence.
Extracted reasoning
The Federal Supreme Court found no arbitrariness in the assessment of the complainant’s assets. The burden of substantiation remained on him, and his references to a criminal-case legal-aid decision, tax assessment, mortgage limits, and renovation needs did not disprove the cantonal court’s conclusion.