Key legal question
Whether the fee award for ex officio defense counsel should be increased for travel time, contacts with relatives, visit permits, seizure-related work, and post-judgment work.
Extracted holding
The complaint was partly upheld. Several challenged reductions were unjustified, while some disputed items remained unremunerated.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that travel time had been assessed too restrictively, that a limited amount of contact with relatives and work on visit permits could be compensated as part of personal support, that the handling of the seized knife was compensable, and that post-judgment work was justified by the length and complexity of the written judgment. No extra compensation was allowed for cost-waiver proceedings, and the reduction for an alleged prison submission was upheld for lack of transparency in the fee note.