"I don't quite get it. What exactly are you saying, Ruan?" Zhan Biao asked, puzzled.
"Zhan, honestly, we've been working on this for so long, yet there's still no hope in sight. What do you think we're missing?" Ruan Hua asked in a subdued voice.
What were they missing?
Was their evidence incomplete? No!
Were their grounds for appeal insufficient? Not that, either!
Had he, Ruan Hua, and the families of the Zhao father and son not done enough? Absolutely not!
Why was the road to appeal so difficult? Ultimately, reopening this wrongful conviction and then overturning it would be a slap in the face to Jiangnan Province's entire Political and Legal System, including the Ganquan City Public Security Bureau, the procuratorate, the court, and the Provincial High People's Court!
Jiang Huizhen, the woman responsible for the wrongful conviction, was the celebrated female detective who had just appeared on China Central Television. She was something of a standard-bearer for the Political and Legal System in Ganquan City and Jiangnan Province.
Her fame surpassed even that of Zhou Yi, the director of the Yangcheng Public Security Bureau, whose reputation had recently soared!
If this really proved to be a wrongful conviction, not only would Jiang Huizhen's career and reputation be destroyed, but she and the criminal investigators involved would also be held legally accountable. Certain leaders in the Political and Legal System did not want to see that outcome, and Jiang Huizhen and the others were desperate to avoid it!
So, what exactly did Ruan Hua mean when he asked what they were missing?
In Zhan Biao's view, what they lacked was the support and impetus of someone with real clout!
That was precisely why he had written to the Procurator-General of the Jiangnan Province Procuratorate!
At that thought, something suddenly