Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the unexplained reduction of the official counsel's fee violated the right to be heard and protection against arbitrariness.
Decisione estratta
The cantonal court violated the complainant's right to be heard by failing to justify the reduction of the fee; the challenged fee decision had to be set aside.
Motivazione estratta
The cantonal court admitted in its response that it had omitted the reasons for reducing the fee. Since a constitutional complaint is generally cassatory only, the Federal Court could not itself set the fee and therefore annulled the fee award in full.