Key legal question
Whether the refusal to appoint an ex officio defense counsel was lawful
Extracted holding
The conditions for mandatory or ex officio defense were not met; the case was neither sufficiently serious nor unusually difficult.
Extracted reasoning
The expected sanction did not exceed the statutory seriousness thresholds, and the factual and legal issues were not complex enough to require counsel. The personal circumstances raised by the appellant did not make the case legally delicate.