Questão jurídica principal
Whether the refusal of cantonal legal aid for the appeal against revocation of conditional release was unlawful because the appeal was not hopeless.
Decisão extraída
The appeal was not shown to have reasonable prospects of success; the cantonal authority could treat it as hopeless and refuse legal aid.
Fundamentação extraída
The court held that the new criminal law did not govern this revocation decision, which was issued before 1 January 2007. The underlying sentence was final, the conditional-release revocation was justified under the applicable former law, and the applicant's remaining objections did not establish a realistic chance of success.