"He told John Flynn: 'This case will make your reputation.
"At the beginning, we told you this case was a disaster," Suh said.
"I was told, 'In this case, you have to express gratitude.' " he said over green tea at a local cafe.
Mr. Martín del Campo, whose brother was killed, said, "So many governments had told us this case was closed.
"We see these five plays as a rolling series of stories, told in this case by the same storytellers — both the actors and Shakespeare".
Irfan's lawyer, Michael Caruso, who has since become the federal public defender for the Southern District of Florida, told me, "This case was stunningly weak".
After the arraignment, Robert Fiske, one of Mr. Taubman's lawyers, told reporters, "This case will be vigorously defended, and we're going to fight it tooth and nail".
Defending the prosecutions, an administrator of the Chengde intermediate court, where the convictions occurred, told Southern Weekend, "This case can't be wrong".
"I told him this case wouldn't be good for his health or his family, but his sense of duty prevailed".
All that the trial court was told in this case was that the officers knew what the petitioner looked like and knew that he had a previous record of arrests or convictions for violations of the clearing house law.
