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suspect definition - legal

n

A person believed to have committed a crime and who is, therefore, being investigated by the police.

v

Having a slight belief or a vague idea but not a knowledge that something happened or that someone did something.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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