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#10875505 - 08/17/09 11:09 AM (2 years, 9 months ago) |
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Corby granted another remission
August 17, 2009 - Antara
 Denpasar, Bali (ANTARA News) - Australia`s Schapelle Leigh Corby who got 20-year prison sentence in 2005 for smuggling marijuana, had been granted a four-month remission on the occasion of the 64th anniversary of Indonesian independence on Monday, a penitentiary official said.
"This is the third remission for her after getting the second last year on a similar occasion," head of the Kerobokan prison in Badung district, Siswanto BC.IP, SH said here on Monday.
Despite the third remission, Corby did not join the other prison inmates in a ceremony celebrating the Indonesian independence anniversary led by Bali deputy governor Puspayoga.
The deputy governor on the occasion presented symbolically the remissions to 639 inmates from nine prisons in Bali, including six foreign inmates serving their time at Kerobokan jail.
On the occasion of the 62nd Indonesian independence anniversary on August 17, 2007, Corby was not granted a remission for violating a prison regulation banning inmates from keeping and using cell phones.
Corby -- one of 20 foreign inmates at the Kerobokan prison -- then confessed of having violated the ruling and asked for an apology.
Corby was brought to court after she confessed bringing a surfing board from Australia containing 4.2 kg of marijuana through the Ngurah Rai international airport in Denpasar, Bali, on October 8, 2004.
At that moment, Corby, who arrived by Australia Airlines AQ 7829, was intensively searched and examined after port security personnel found the drugs.
Corby who was sentenced to 20 years in jail, had intensive medical treatment at the Denpasar Sanglah hospital several times.
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#10924088 - 08/23/09 11:25 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Schapelle Corby 'clinically insane'
August 24, 2009 - news.com.au
A PSYCHIATRIST who spent a week with convicted drug smuggler Schapelle
Corby has diagnosed her as "clinically insane".
The Australian doctor, believed to be employed by Corby's family, said
he was shocked by what he saw during his time at the Indonesian jail,
saying the 32-year-old was delusional and paranoid.
The Corby family is planning to send the doctor's 20-page report to
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Queensland Premier Anna Bligh in a bid to
have Schapelle transferred to an Australian jail.
The news follows reports that Bali Nine drug trafficker, Renae
Lawrence, has been "secretly caring" for Corby for almost a year at the
special request of authorities at Bali's Kerobokan jail.
The women have each been jailed for 20 years for drug trafficking -
Corby for smuggling marijuana into Bali's Denpasar airport and Lawrence
for attempting to traffick heroin from Bali to Australia.
Lawrence, in an interview with Woman's Day magazine, says she has
watched Corby's condition deteriorate in the past four years.
In that time Corby had gone from a "strong-minded person" who was
determined not to crumble and to prove her innocence to a "timid little
child that cowers when I scold her for doing silly little things".
"I'm the only one she listens to," Lawrence said.
"She's tried to climb on to the roof of the cells and lodged herself
inside a space in the ceiling of her cell.
"She thinks she can get out of the prison that way and it takes a lot
of talking to bring her down."
Lawrence admitted there were times when the pair screamed at each other
and almost fought physically, but she said those issues were now at
rest.
"Only five cells separate us. Too close to carry on like that for the
next 20 years," she said.
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#10925304 - 08/24/09 08:09 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Stories like this remind me that we live in the dark ages.
Aussies should (or do they already?) have a campaign to completely boycott Bali tourism because of this case.
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#11884035 - 01/23/10 06:18 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hope gone, Schapelle escapes her Bali cell to a world of fantasy
January 24, 2010 - smh.com.au
The gruff, no-nonsense Renae Lawrence has become the protector of an increasingly child-like Schapelle Corby, tormented as her prospects of release from Bali's Kerobokan prison have faded.
When visited by The Sun-Herald last week Corby looked unwell, noticeably ageing with her skin covered in acne, possibly the result of her medication.
But despite her disdain of the media - she threw a bottle of water at reporters who had tried to talk to her two weeks ago - the convicted marijuana smuggler was happy to speak. She was upbeat when approached but clearly has mental health issues.
''Oooh, it's Superman,'' she cooed, then started giggling hysterically. ''I think there's a phone box outside. Why don't you go outside and get changed and come and rescue me?''
Lawrence, a heroin mule, then came over and did the rescuing, gently putting her arm around Corby and leading her away.
Just moments earlier, Lawrence angrily denounced a book by Corby's biographer Kathryn Bonella as ''full of lies''. The book alleged Lawrence - who is gay - had orgies in her ''queen-sized bed''.
Mercedes Corby said her sister spent much of her time in a strange fantasy world.
''Everyone Schapelle sees, she thinks they are some kind of character,'' Ms Corby she said. ''She has bad days and days that are better, but she has no good days. She needs to be in a mental health facility.''
Indonesian authorities have dismissed the plea.
Lawrence seemed weary but, in contrast to Corby, has accepted her fate and made the best of things, even wearing a distinctive shirt with her name emblazoned on it to signify her status as a leader of the prison population.
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#11884125 - 01/23/10 07:09 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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I am still not sure this girl is innocent.
I'm not saying she is guilty, but there are plenty of people in prison for longer terms with less evidence.
The only reason this is still a story is because she is pretty.
But really, she very well may have done what she was accused of.
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Personally, I don't think she is guilty. But there will always be some question one way or the other. The point is that if she were home, she would be free. If you recall initially she was to be executed. This is Bali. Corruption is part everyday business. The difference between guilt/innocence and jail/freedom is often based on the amount of the bribe.
Yes, there are people in prison for longer terms. A Filipino waiter was sentenced to life in Dubai for a tenth gram of meth the other day. China recently executed a Brit for drug charges. The disparity of laws around the world is mind boggling. In the US people will get sentenced to 20 years for a crime in one state and maybe just a fine or probation two states over for the same offense.
Schapelle may be considered pretty by some, but that is not why this is still a story in Australia. She is one of their own and jailed in a nearby country and there will always be some doubt about her guilt. This is a story, but no longer a BIG story. At one time Aussies were outraged and all about protests and boycotting Bali. But Bali is again a very nice inexpensive place to go for holiday. As time goes by, people will forget Schapelle Corby and other injustices, but that doesn't make it right.
I like to update this story so people don't forget. If anything, it is a reminder to be aware that what you can get away with at home can be treated entirely differently somewhere else. Also I think The Shroomery is now the only repository for this entire story anywhere, as most of the original articles are no longer available.
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#12355312 - 04/08/10 12:15 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Schapelle Corby could be forced to move to remote East Java jail - threat
April 5, 2010 - heraldsun.com.au
BALI prisoner Schapelle Corby is facing a secret plan to move her to a remote jail on the Indonesian island of Java.
A secret document orders Corby to be transferred to another detention centre in Malang, East Java, according to a Woman’s Day report today.
The latest move to transfer Corby comes after two previous failed attempts to move her, after Australian authorities and Corby’s family fought to let her stay in Bali.
Corby biographer Kathryn Bonella quotes from the document from the Indonesian Ministry of Law and Human Rights which orders the Kerobokan prison chief to carry out the transfer “effective from the date the transfer is signed”.
The plan is dated March 2, 2010, and now looms over Corby, who continues to struggle with a fragile mental state.
Corby, 32, reportedly fears that very thing in extracts of her book My Story.
“I live in fear that any day I could be plucked from my cell in the dead of the night and taken to another prison in a remote part of Indonesia,” Corby writes.
Schapelle’s sister Mercedes has told Woman’s Day that she is terrified about the impact it could have on her sister.
Bali Nine prisoner Renae Lawrence was also named in the document as a candidate for transfer.
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#12355792 - 04/08/10 01:18 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Schapelle Corby lodges plea for clemency on grounds of mental illness
April 9, 2010 - heraldsun.com.au
 SCHAPELLE Corby has lodged a plea for clemency from the Indonesian president on the humanitarian ground of mental illness.
The plea, which seeks to have Corby's 20-year jail sentence reduced, changed or quashed, is contained in hundreds of pages of documents addressed to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
The plea asks him to give clemency to Corby by either removing her sentence completely or slashing the number of years she must serve.
It does not suggest any alternative sentence.
A request for clemency is highly unusual in Indonesia.
Mr Yudhoyono, who has a tough anti-drug regime, has consistently said he will not pardon drug dealers.
The clemency plea says that Corby, who was arrested in October 2004, is suffering psychosis and has become insane.
The document also highlights what the defence lawyers say were legal errors and mistakes in the conduct of the investigation and Corby's trial in the Denpasar District Court.
The clemency plea is backed by reports from two psychiatrists. Corby's treating psychiatrist in Bali, Dr Denny Thong, says in a statement that he observed her for five days last May and concluded that she suffers "depression with psychotic symptoms.
This condition could endanger her life because she cannot control her mind, feelings and behaviour".
Dr Thong recommends that Corby be moved to an environment where she can be medically supervised.
The clemency plea also includes a report from Australian psychiatrist Dr Jonathan Phillips.
Dr Phillips examined Corby last August and said she was suffering severe psychosis and that it could be said she had become insane.
He said that Corby acted in a child-like way and was susceptible to exploitation.
The plea also includes a three-page letter from Corby's sister Mercedes, who says her sibling did not get a fair trial and that there were many mistakes and problems with the conduct of the police investigation and the subsequent trial.
Mercedes highlights a number of issues including that no fingerprints were ever taken of the bag containing the marijuana, there was no video record of the arrest at Bali Airport, there is no video or CCTV from the airport in Australia, no DNA testing was carried out on the marijuana to determine its origin and her baggage weight was not recorded in Australia.
She also highlights a cocaine bust at Sydney airport involving baggage handlers on the same day that Schapelle was transiting through Sydney airport.
A decision on Corby's plea could take months or years.
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#12371877 - 04/11/10 08:36 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Thanks for the updates veggie!!! Even if it is usually just sad news in this case. 
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She looks like a mannequin
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#12372221 - 04/11/10 10:40 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Whether or not she "did it", she doesn't deserve what has happened to her by a long shot.
I can't even begin to imagine what goes through her mind every day.
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#12967527 - 07/28/10 02:54 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Judge supports Corby plea for clemency
July 29, 2010 - smh.com.au
Convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has reportedly received her strongest support yet to drastically cut her 20-year jail term.
 An Indonesian Supreme Court judge has recommended to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono that her sentence be significantly reduced, ABC Radio reports.
The former Gold Coast beauty school student has spent six years at Bali's Kerobokan prison since being arrested at the Bali airport in October 2004 with more than four kilograms of marijuana in her boogie board bag.
She was convicted in May 2005 and sentenced to 20 years' prison.
Corby, who recently turned 33, has asked for clemency from the Indonesian president but has publicly said she would never admit guilt, which is usually a requirement to receive a presidential pardon.
ABC Radio said the president was considering the Supreme Court judge's submission.
Corby's lawyer Iskandar Nawing told ABC Radio he had not heard from the courts, but his client was mentally ill and deserved mercy.
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#12967669 - 07/28/10 03:24 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Totally sending her good vibes. Thanks for always updating Veggie. I'd never keep up with this case if not for you.
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#12968861 - 07/28/10 07:13 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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wow six years already, poor girl
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#13063477 - 08/17/10 09:45 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Corby could be out of prison in little more than four years
August 18, 2010 - smh.com.au
 The convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby could be out of jail in just over four years with good behaviour as she enters an accelerated remission program.
The shorter term is possible even if the Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, does not endorse the request for clemency she submitted in April.
Yesterday Corby received the biggest single cut in her 20-year sentence, with five months sliced off her term as part of the traditional remissions that mark Indonesia's Independence Day.
Remissions of one to two months are also given at Christmas or the Islamic holy day of Idul Fitri each year, depending on the religion of the prisoner.
Corby's remission brings the total time taken off her sentence for smuggling 4.1 kilograms of cannabis to Bali to 17 months. It comes just days after a Sun-Herald/Neilsen poll found one in three Australians want the convicted drug smuggler to go free, even though only one in 10 believes she is innocent.
From next year, after serving six years, Corby will be eligible to have eight months cut off her sentence each year, according to Made Suardana, an official at Kerobokan prison, where she is held.
Assuming she does not infringe prison regulations, Corby could be out in a little over four years.
But the prospect of big remissions will not deter the Corby family from pursuing its clemency bid, which rests on the argument that her mental state is deteriorating alarmingly.
However, Kerobokan's governor, Siswanto, cast doubt on the bid, saying Corby needed to be assessed by a government-approved psychiatrist before her claims of mental illness could be verified.
But Mercedes Corby said the clemency bid included at least two reports from ''highly qualified'' Indonesian psychiatrists.
Others whose sentences were shortened included an Islamic militant who helped plan suicide bombings on Bali. Anif Solchanudin had five months taken off his 15-year term.
Twenty other militants jailed on the islands of Nusakambangan and Sulawesi had their sentences cut by up to six months.
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#13064516 - 08/17/10 01:22 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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only 1 in 10 thinks shes innocent? i think shes innocent, who would really be THAT dumb to carry 4 keys of weed on a plane?
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: Cloud9]
#13064711 - 08/17/10 02:00 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
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only 1 in 10 thinks shes innocent? i think shes innocent, who would really be THAT dumb to carry 4 keys of weed on a plane?
Who the hell would be dumb enough to have 4 keys of weed UNKNOWINGLY? Poor woman...
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someone who doesn't check their bag
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#13362522 - 10/20/10 01:56 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Corby's release hopes boosted by Indonesia
October 20, 2010 - smh.com.au
Indonesia's foreign ministry has recommended that Schapelle Corby's appeal for clemency be considered favourably to help achieve her early release from prison on ''humanitarian'' grounds.
The recommendation follows strident lobbying by Kevin Rudd, both as prime minister and, more recently, Foreign Minister.
While good news for Corby, the Indonesian foreign ministry's view is one of several to be considered by the President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
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Corby is serving a 20-year prison sentence for smuggling 4.2 kilograms of cannabis to Bali and has appealed to Dr Yudhoyono to be released from prison, citing severe depression. She maintains her innocence.
According to a source, Indonesia's foreign ministry has urged a ''humanitarian'' approach, calling for ''leniency leading to her release from Kerobokan prison''.
The Herald understands officials from several Indonesian government departments will meet with counterparts from Dr Yudhoyono's state secretariat this week to consider a number of clemency bids, including Corby's.
Indonesia's Supreme Court and ministry of justice have input but the final decision rests with Dr Yudhoyono.
The high profile of the case is why Indonesia's foreign ministry has, unusually, been asked for its opinion. Last month Mr Rudd lobbied for Corby in a New York meeting with his Indonesian counterpart, Marty Natalegawa.
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#13362689 - 10/20/10 02:43 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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I personally don't think he will allow it, at least within the next two years or so. Seems like the kind of scumbag who only cares about policy, and not acts of humanity. My heart goes out to the girl.
Also:
'Others whose sentences were shortened included an Islamic militant who helped plan suicide bombings on Bali. Anif Solchanudin had five months taken off his 15-year term.'
A violent offender gets 15 years, vs. her 20? Where the fuck are their priorities? Better to smuggle a gun than a bag of weed, man fuck that place.
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