Key legal question
Whether the refusal to appoint a non-Fribourg lawyer as court-appointed counsel violated constitutional legal aid rights or cantonal law.
Extracted holding
No violation was found; the refusal to appoint Me Kathrin Gruber as court-appointed counsel was upheld.
Extracted reasoning
There is no general right to choose appointed counsel in legal aid proceedings. Fribourg may ordinarily appoint lawyers registered in its own register, and no special circumstances justifying an out-of-canton appointment were established; the later trust relationship could not be relied on abusively after the initial refusal.