Definition of "suspect" []

• To surmise to be true or probable; imagine: I suspect they are very disappointed. (verb-transitive)
• To have doubts about; distrust: I suspect his motives. (verb-transitive)
• To think (a person) guilty without proof: The police suspect her of murder. (verb-transitive)
• To have suspicion. (verb-intransitive)
• One who is suspected, especially of having committed a crime. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The term suspect is an investigative term, not a legal term, Nancy."
• "Personally, I believe that if a suspect is arrested and then convicted, his “demographic” is not the defining basis of that conviction."
• "BUT when a suspect is arrested and interrogated, then the police officer had better had Mirandized the suspect or anything said during the interrogation is tossed out because he hadn't been Mirandized."