Key legal question
Whether costs and criminal party compensation may be charged to an acquitted defendant because his conduct supposedly caused the investigation.
Extracted holding
No. Such an allocation is only permissible if the defendant clearly violated a civil-law duty and thereby caused or complicated the proceedings.
Extracted reasoning
The cantonal court's reasoning amounted to a disguised finding of guilt and did not identify any clearly violated civil norm. The interpretation of the alleged duty was debatable, so arbitrariness was present.