Key legal question
Whether legal aid under Art. 136 CPP could be refused because the civil claim appeared hopeless
Extracted holding
At the time of the request, the civil claim could not yet be regarded as hopeless; further investigation was needed and counsel was justified.
Extracted reasoning
The medical report and inconsistent statements raised doubts, but the hypothesis of self-aggression only became plausible after later witness and doctor hearings, which postdated the refusal. On the available file, the prospects of a civil claim were not clearly poorer than the risks.