Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the refusal of free legal aid in the cantonal criminal complaint proceedings was unlawful
Extrahierter Entscheid
The refusal was lawful because the underlying criminal complaint was manifestly hopeless.
Extrahierte Begründung
The alleged offences dated from 1982 to 1985 and were already time-barred. Filing civil claims did not revive criminal limitation periods. Therefore the preconditions for prosecution were clearly absent and the civil action was hopeless under Art. 136 StPO.