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CrypticMirror
Since: Jan, 2001
Gojirob
Since: Apr, 2009
CrypticMirror
Since: Jan, 2001

A character is accused of a crime, and pursued by main investigative characters whose belief means, for the sake of the show, that the accused probably did it, unless the episode is about a mistake they made. Point being, the accused is shielded by a giant wall of 'How Dare You?'. The accused themselves denies it or people that know them/know of them refuse to hear of it not on evidentiary basis, but simply because of how important and powerful the accused is. It ends up being very circular logic, and in RL, some accounts say this is how Bernie Madoff got by for so long. Young prosecutors of a free-market bent ignored red flags because of how successful Madoff supposedly was, never questioning the basis of that success. A big phrase in the fictional version of this circumstance is something like "Do you have any idea just who I am/they are/who you're talking about?"