Right to Appointed Counsel for Indigent Detainee in Psychiatric Facility

The Court of Appeal ruled that an accused person requesting official defense counsel while involuntarily detained in a psychiatric facility due to a welfare measure must be appointed one, based on a teleological application of the statute concerning mandatory defense during pre-trial detention and preventive custody, even if no particularly severe infringement of rights is immediately apparent. The reasoning emphasized that the appellant was indigent and, given their documented psychological state requiring hospitalization at the time of the request, was unable to effectively represent their own interests, which constituted a real difficulty justifying the appointment under the broader context of ensuring defense representation in non-trivial cases.