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Posted By: davidcycleback

The presence of evidence doesn't automatically mean anything bad happened. In fact, evidence regularly exists when someone is innocent. If a customer was at a bank the day when money was stolen: that is evidence that he committed a crime. There may be other evidence that shows he didn't steal the money. A look at video tape may show he left at noon, not returning that day, while the money was stolen as 4.

Say one person committed a crime and the police say, "There is evidence that one of you five guys committed the crime." This is evidence against each of the five, but does not equate with all five having committed the crime. In fact, it literally equates with 4-5 not having committed the crime.

While I'm sure they don't wish to waste their time, the FBI 'looking at evidence' does not automatically equate with guilt or even a crime. The FBI may decide that the evidence shows a crime was not committed. One can't determine innocence or guilt before looking at the evidence.