Legal Definition and Related Resources of Suspect

To have a slight or even vague idea concerning, but not necessarily involving, knowledge or belief or likelihood. Brown v Broome county , 189 N.Y.S.2d 704, 20 Misc.2d 908. Also, one who is suspected or alleged to have committed a crime .

(Distrust), verb

• be doubtful
• be dubious
• be skeptical
• be suspicious
• disbelieve
• doubt
• feel distrust
• harbor suspicious
• have no confidence in
• lack confidence in
• misdoubt
• misgive
• mistrust
• question
• without reliance in Associated Concepts: suspect of wrongdoing

(Think), verb

• assume
• be of the opinion
• believe
• conclude
• conjecture
• consider
• deduce
• deem
• divine
• fancy
• gather
• guess
• have the idea
• hold
• hypothesize
• imagine
• infer
• judge
• opine
• posit
• presume
• presuppose
• reckon
• speculate
• suppose
• surmise
• suspicari
• suspicionem habere
• take for granted
• theorize
• understand
• view

noun

• accused
• accused person
• alleged malfeasor
• alleged offender
• alleged transgressor
• alleged wrongdoer
• individual under suspicion
• one suspected of a crime
• person accused of crime
• presumed wrongdoer
• suspected criminal
• Associated Concepts: defendant

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Translate Suspect from English to Spanish

Translation of Suspect, with examples. More about free online translation into Spanish of Presunto responsable and other legal terms is available here.

• Presunto responsable
• Sospechoso
• Legal English Translation

In criminal law, a suspect is someone who is under suspicion, often formally announced as being under investigation by law enforcement officials.

In criminal law, a suspect is someone who is under suspicion, often formally announced as being under investigation by law enforcement officials.

Meaning of Suspect in Spanish

Description/ translation of suspect into Spanish: sospechoso (en la fase pre-judicial del proceso, el autor presunto del hecho punible)[1]

Note: for more information on related terms and on the area of law where suspect belongs (criminal procedure law), in Spanish, see here.

Notes and References

1. Translation of Suspect published by Antonio Peñaranda