"The prosecutors preferred this media circus," he said after his release on $100,000 bail.

He said after his release that he had required medical treatment because the police had beaten him.

"Don't think we survived it," he said after his wife's release.

Officer Romano said little yesterday after his release from the hospital.

"No money went into my pocket," he said, on the steps of the federal courthouse just after his release.

"This is the 27th time," he said in disgust after his release.

"The question is very simple," Mr. Salikh said after his release.

"My mother didn't pack a suitcase for me that time," he said recently, a few months after his release.

Ask yourself, in all honesty: What would her admirers say after her release?

"I wasn't worth the money," Garland said candidly the year after his release.