Question juridique clé
Whether refusal of free legal aid for the detention appeal violated Article 29(3) BV.
Solution extraite
No. The appeal was hopeless when the legal-aid request was filed, so denial of free legal aid was constitutionally permissible.
Motifs extraits
The court assessed prospects at the time the request was filed, not at the later date of the detention decision. On 1 May 2002, given the short lapse after arrest and the collusion-risk basis for detention, success prospects were substantially lower than the risk of failure.