Questão jurídica principal
Whether the constitutional complaint was admissible despite failure to exhaust cantonal remedies against the refusal of legal aid.
Decisão extraída
No. The refusal of legal aid was subject to a free cantonal complaint to the three-member chamber, so the federal complaint was premature.
Fundamentação extraída
The cantonal legal-aid refusal was an interim decision, but admissibility still required exhaustion of cantonal remedies. The available cantonal complaint had a scope of review no narrower than that of the Federal Supreme Court, so the complained-of constitutional violations could have been raised there.