Kernrechtsfrage
Whether compensation under Arts. 67 and 163a CPP/VD was owed after acquittal despite allegedly culpable conduct by the acquitted person.
Extrahierter Entscheid
No compensation was owed because the appellant's conduct had justified the opening of the criminal proceedings and was legally reprehensible at the time.
Extrahierte Begründung
Under Vaud law, compensation may be reduced or refused when the claimant's legally blameworthy conduct caused or aggravated the prosecution and is causally linked to the loss. The appellant's stay in Switzerland while subject to valid expulsion orders constituted a punishable breach of ban at the time of arrest, even though the conviction was later set aside under the lex mitior.