Questão jurídica principal
Whether the refusal of cantonal legal aid violated the constitutional right to free legal assistance.
Decisão extraída
No. The cantonal court did not act arbitrarily in treating the appeal as hopeless and therefore lawfully denied legal aid.
Fundamentação extraída
The court found that all decisive appellate complaints lacked prospects of success: the challenge to the expert's appointment, the bias objection, the request for a new expert opinion, and the attack on the expert fee were all untenable. Since the underlying appeal had no reasonable chance of success, the constitutional conditions for free legal aid were not met.