You said a group of people respected by the community. You didn't say anything about leaving the decision in the hands of the pools that have 51% of the hashing power. I thought an independent group was supposed to review the evidence and inform the pools of which addresses they should ignore?
Good point. I guess the people controlling 51% of the hashing power would have to determine which independent group had sufficient validity. Such a group, constituted appropriately, seems like it could persuade them.