Clea believes that Strange's suspicions were wrong: Virginia is not the Forerunner, it is her blond-haired, blue-eyed "Native American" companion.
"Facts" may be proved wrong, suspicion may turn out to have been misplaced, but the mud sticks, forever.
The inquiry can be initiated on just the suspicion that something wrong happened, such as unusual stock trading before an announcement or the abrupt resignation of an auditor.
For French fans, relief that they had made it to the finals was tinged by a nagging suspicion that the wrong side had won.
I agree, but I think Kristof marshaled the evidence and raised so many questions about Hatfill that he contributed to a cloud of suspicion over the wrong man at a time when, in hindsight, the F.B.I. should have been pursuing other leads.
Despite what the court said was "a nagging suspicion that the wrong man may have been convicted of capital murder," the three-judge panel wrote, the defendant, Darryl Burton, was entitled to "no relief, even as the facts suggest that he may well be innocent".
Soon after the lynching of Mohammed Akhlaq, on 28 September, a spokesman for Modi's ruling BJP, Tarun Vijay, wrote in an editorial meant to condemn the killing: "Lynching a person merely on suspicion is absolutely wrong" – as if implying that if you're sure of guilt, lynching is OK.
But the judge's decision came six years after a panel of federal judges, having considered much of the same evidence, ruled that though it had "a nagging suspicion that the wrong man may have been convicted of capital murder," it could not overturn the conviction of the man, Darryl Burton, because of numerous procedural impediments.
Well, I've got some news for you... although those beliefs are as deeply ingrained in me as anyone, I am starting to have a sneaking suspicion we are wrong.
Those suspicions aren't wrong.
