Questão jurídica principal
Whether costs of the dismissed investigation could be imposed on the appellant without violating the presumption of innocence.
Decisão extraída
No. The lower court relied on conduct that was not proven as a criminal offence; this violated the presumption of innocence.
Fundamentação extraída
A cost order after dismissal is only permissible for clearly established, legally blameworthy conduct. The appellate court treated the alleged breach of narcotics law as indistinguishable from the criminal accusation and found the required criminal conduct unproven.