Key legal question
Which authority is competent to appoint official defence counsel in petty-offence proceedings, and does cantonal § 155 GOG displace that competence?
Extracted holding
The procedure management authority is competent under Art. 132(1) StPO; in petty-offence proceedings this is the petty-offence authority under Art. 61(b) StPO. Cantonal § 155 GOG does not apply in proceedings before the petty-offence authority.
Extracted reasoning
The StPO assigns the appointment of official defence counsel to the authority conducting the proceedings. A canton may regulate organization under Art. 14 StPO, but it cannot remove competences granted by federal law. Even if the federal and cantonal legislatures did not expressly foresee official defence in this setting, that omission does not alter the federal competence rule.