The phrase "a suspect would be" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the potential status or characteristics of an individual in a legal or investigative context.
Example: "In this case, a suspect would be someone who was present at the scene of the crime."
Alternatives: "an individual might be" or "a person could be".
Some tips, completely lacking in indicia of reliability, would either warrant no police response or require further investigation before a forcible stop of a suspect would be authorized.
Those denials did not deter hundreds of office workers and reporters from gathering outside the federal courthouse, where they anticipated that a suspect would be arraigned.
The legal standard allows U.S. officials to argue that they didn't know with any certainty that a suspect would be tortured, and so can't be held liable.
David Cole, in a piece in the New York Review of Books that lists thirteen questions for Brennan's confirmation hearing, asked whether the ease of drone killings and their safety for American service members had led to a redefinition of feasibility, to the point where any attempt to arrest a suspect would be dismissed as unreasonably risky.
"Any N.Y.P.D. police officer that ran into the subway in pursuit of a suspect would be out of radio communication with headquarters," except in a few stations, said Albert O'Leary, a spokesman for New York City Transit, which is part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
The deal that the 15 governments agreed to prevents them from extraditing American government employees accused of war crimes to the court, on the condition that the United States government guarantee that such a suspect would be tried in an American court.
They had briefed a local fugitive-apprehension team that morning, telling them that a major suspect would be passing through the airport.
Probes are stimuli only a guilty suspect would be likely to know.
One would have a reflector that shines light toward the back of the screen, another would have a "light harness" which I suspect would be a way of gathering light in one area and releasing it in another, and the third method I can't seem to figure out.
The fair-haired Van Zyl, a solid-looking character who you suspect would be a handy rugby player, continues with his probing line on or outside off stump.
A picture of the suspect would be released shortly.
