However the justice system does not(or in this case should not) work that way. Reasonable suspicions is another word for speculation, and speculation doesn't fly in court(again in this case shouldn't)
I haven't read the chapter. So i cannot comment on what they said. But from what i hear, it sounds like people just didn't like what they were hearing, so they went shit-bat crazy on them. But like i haven't read the chapter, and i don't really trust the blogosphere much.