But unlike Rabenn, Hemesath, or Sanchez, Bonakdar immediately doubted the story that his client had killed himself, and he told Rabenn as much. Bonakdar had never experienced a client committing suicide, but he’d heard defendants consider it in moments of despair. “I know someone who’s on the edge when I speak to them,” Bonakdar says. “I just never got the sense from Cazes that he felt all was lost, that there was no recovering from this, that he was a dead man.” Over the months that followed, Bonakdar says he asked U.S. prosecutors and the Thai government for video footage of Cazes’s cell at
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