Key legal question
Whether refusal of defense-cost compensation after discontinuance violated the presumption of innocence
Extracted holding
No. A refusal of compensation is compatible with the presumption of innocence if it is based on clear civil-law wrongful conduct, not on an imputation of criminal guilt.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that the lower court relied on a civil-law breach of conduct norms under unfair competition and design law, not on a criminal culpability finding.