Key legal question
Whether costs may be imposed on a person whose criminal proceedings were dismissed because of alleged blameworthy conduct.
Extracted holding
Costs may only be imposed after dismissal if the person clearly violated a legal duty in a civil-law sense and thereby caused or aggravated the proceedings; here that was not shown.
Extracted reasoning
The lower authority’s reasoning effectively relied on an inferred criminal suspicion. That amounts to an inadmissible presumption-based sanction. No concrete civil or administrative norm was identified that required reporting the minor’s whereabouts.