Question juridique clé
Whether the appellants were entitled to additional compensation for moral harm under cantonal procedure law
Solution extraite
No. The court found no arbitrary application of cantonal law because the alleged mental-health inquiry, media impact, duration, and stigmatization did not create a sufficiently serious prejudice, and the wife was not prosecuted for the intimate-family aspects she invoked.
Motifs extraits
Under cantonal law, equitable compensation for post-acquittal or non-lieu harm is reserved for cases where the accused suffered substantial prejudice causally linked to the criminal proceedings. The court held that the challenged elements were either unproven, insufficiently intense, or outside the scope of the criminal prosecution.