Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the refusal of official defense violated constitutional and ECHR minimum guarantees in a case with about four weeks' imprisonment at stake.
Decisione estratta
No. A possible unconditional prison term of four weeks was not so severe as to require defense counsel in every case.
Motivazione estratta
The court held that automatic entitlement exists only in particularly serious cases or where special factual/legal difficulties make self-defense unreasonable. Four weeks' detention did not meet that threshold.