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 Jim
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 Re: 27 year old faces death for marijuana [Re: veggie]
#4154917 - 05/09/05 07:12 PM (7 years, 23 days ago) |
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All the evidence is in, but when you give up hope... thats when you are fucked.
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Re: 27 year old faces death for marijuana [Re: Jim]
#4156464 - 05/10/05 06:16 AM (7 years, 22 days ago) |
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Jesus tapdancing christ. I just read every single page of this story.
#1 I am a world traveler. I will NEVER EVER go to Indonisia, EVER. I will not contribute one cent to that economy.
#2 I see some SUV sized holes in this story. Third world countries legal systems run on bribes and illegal payments. This was what they were looking for, but with the lime light shinning on her, they were forced to procced into areas that they did not want to go.
#3 The australlian government has been shamfully lacking in fighting for her freedom. With the alleged amount of inconsistancies that have shown up in this case, along with new evidence, they still stand silent? Why? What deal do they have with indonessia that they do not want to scew up?
Maybe because of a 550 million dollar investment plan...
http://www.austrade.gov.au/overseas/layout/0,,0_S3-1_3z6-2_-3_PWB110366804-4_-5_-6_-7_,00.html
That grew into a 8.5 billion dollar monster...
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15006668-31037,00.html
Or the fact that a new joint australlian/indonesia space program is in the works.(This link is the begining stages of it. I can dig up more recent ones, but need more coffee..)
http://www.science.org.au/reports/spacesub.htm
The point is, they don't want to ruin a amazing trade agreement that could strengthen australias global economy by some 20% over a girl.
It is a sad sad thing, and i am glad someone posted it up on this website. I am going to be fowarding this story to many reporters in the midwest see, if we can get some press on this here.
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Re: 27 year old faces death for marijuana [Re: Photoguy]
#4159095 - 05/10/05 06:36 PM (7 years, 22 days ago) |
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I take it they just swept the death sentance which in the beginning was mandatory if he was found guilty under the carpet due to media attention?
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Re: 27 year old faces death for marijuana [Re: faslimy]
#4159940 - 05/10/05 09:57 PM (7 years, 22 days ago) |
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Actually, she could still be sentenced to death if found guilty of drug trafficking. The chief judge in the case has the power to have Schapelle killed by firing squad even though the prosecution is now recommending a life sentence. A verdict is expected by the end of the month. I don't think the media attention will have any influence at all.
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Re: 27 year old faces death for marijuana [Re: veggie]
#4159974 - 05/10/05 10:02 PM (7 years, 22 days ago) |
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Corby's defence case flimsy, says Keelty
May 11, 2005 - smh.com.au
Australia's top cop says intelligence supporting Schapelle Corby's defence of being an unwitting Australian drug mule is flimsy.
Australian Federal Police (AFP) commissioner Mick Keelty said if he were called on to give evidence in Corby's Bali trial, he could not fully support the theory.
"There is very little intelligence to suggest that baggage handlers are using innocent people to traffic heroin or other drugs between states," Mr Keelty told ABC Radio.
"We can only go by the intelligence we've got.
"If I was to give evidence in a case like Corby's I would have to be honest and I would have to say that's what the intelligence produces."
Corby, 27, faces life imprisonment if found guilty of importing 4.2 kg of cannabis into Bali.
The Queenslander has maintained she did not know there was marijuana in her baggage and believes the drugs were planted in her bag at Brisbane airport, possibly by baggage handlers running a domestic drug-running operation.
The commissioner has also said Corby's case could not be compared to the alleged cocaine smuggling racket busted this week, which also involved airport baggage handlers.
On Monday, 15 homes were raided across Sydney as part of Operation Mocha, a five month investigation into an alleged conspiracy to import up to $15 million worth of cocaine into Australia.
Police say the plan was to bring in up to 30 kg of cocaine in suitcases carried by drug mules on flights from South America.
Mr Keelty said the AFP was aware of baggage handlers on the international side who were involved with the syndicates - but the situation was nothing like what had been raised by Corby's defence lawyers.
"In terms of comparing it (the cocaine ring) to the Schapelle Corby case, we actually know the alleged role the players, I'm not going to go specifically into baggage handlers, but the alleged role of the various players," Mr Keelty said.
"The allegation by her defence team ... is that she was unwittingly used a mule in an attempt by baggage handlers to trade, behind the scenes if you like, in narcotics between Brisbane and Sydney.
"This cocaine job is about importing narcotics into Australia. It's not about trafficking between states, or alleged trafficking between states.
"(Corby's case is) very different to what we've got here (Operation Mocha)."
The alleged cocaine ring was an international operation and based on the international side of the airport, which was some distance away from the domestic terminals.
Mr Keelty said he did not think it did Corby's case any good to be discussing it in the Australian media because it appeared to be critical of the Indonesian justice system.
Edited by veggie (05/11/05 01:16 AM)
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Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: veggie]
#4160626 - 05/11/05 01:20 AM (7 years, 22 days ago) |
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Keelty 'ignoring' airport evidence
May 11, 2005 - theadvertiser.news.com.au
AUSTRALIAN Federal Police (AFP) commissioner Mick Keelty is ignoring evidence of a drug trafficking network active in Australian airports, a top adviser for accused drug smuggler Schapelle Corby says.
As Ms Corby's lawyers prepare to make a final plea before a Bali court tomorrow, one of her main advisers criticised Mr Keelty for suggesting her defence of being an unwitting Australian drug mule was flimsy.
"There is very little intelligence to suggest that baggage handlers are using innocent people to traffic heroin or other drugs between states," Mr Keelty told ABC radio today.
Corby adviser Vasu Rasiah said Mr Keelty's timing was appalling, and he was "flabbergasted and shocked" by his comments just a day ahead of the Gold Coast woman's crucial next court appearance.
"Everybody talks about baggage handlers except Mick Keelty," Mr Rasiah said.
"He is just covering for AFP."
From the time Ms Corby was arrested last october, Mr Keelty had sought to brush over the problem of a domestic drug ring operating in Australian airports, selecting unsuspecting travellers such as Ms Corby to be their unwitting couriers, Mr Rasiah said.
Allegations in a Sydney court today that Qantas baggage handlers were paid $300,000 to smuggle a briefcase packed with cocaine through Sydney airport helped to underpin Ms Corby's defence, he said.
Those claims came on top of weekend evidence from Ray Cooper, former head of operations for the AFP internal investigations, that drug networks within Australian airports were a long-standing problem for the force.
"What does Mick Keelty say about that?" Mr Rasiah said.
In Canberra, an AFP spokesman refused to respond to Mr Rasiah's comments.
But he said the AFP had never denied there were criminal baggage handlers.
Mr Keelty had only pointed to the lack of evidence for the use of innocent drug mules, he said.
Mr Rasiah said Ms Corby's final defence would focus on weekend comments by Bali drug chief Lieutenant Colonel Bambang Sugiarto that there were gaps in the prosecution case against her.
Lt-Col Sugiarto reportedly told Indonesian television the lack of video footage of Ms Corby's arrest and problems with fingerprinting bags containing the 4.1kg of marijuana she allegedly tried to smuggle into Bali were shortcomings in the case.
But he told AAP last week that his comments had been taken out of context and it would have been impossible to bring the case to court if it had not been properly completed.
But Mr Rasiah said Lt-Col Sugiarto had undermined the entire prosecution case.
"Is there any other case that would come to court which had only been 50 per cent completed?" he said.
Ms Corby, 27, faces life in prison if judges accept the demands of prosecutors.
The panel of three judges hearing her case is expected to hand down a verdict on May 26.
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Re: 27 year old faces death for marijuana [Re: Photoguy]
#4160847 - 05/11/05 05:30 AM (7 years, 21 days ago) |
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Quote:
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The point is, they don't want to ruin a amazing trade agreement that could strengthen australias global economy by some 20% over a girl.
Well, duh...
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Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: veggie]
#4161636 - 05/11/05 10:35 AM (7 years, 21 days ago) |
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Corby flew out the same day
May 12, 2005 - smh.com.au
The day police allege a Sydney drug ring brought almost 10 kilograms of cocaine through Sydney Airport with the help of corrupt baggage handlers is the same day Schapelle Corby flew to Bali from the same airport.
Corby, who faces life imprisonment for allegedly smuggling 4.2 kilograms of marijuana into Indonesia, claims the drugs were placed in her luggage by baggage handlers.
A spokesman for Corby's legal team, Vasu Raiah, said the allegations, which were presented in a police statement yesterday, were "unbelievable".
He again attacked the Australian Federal Police for refusing to acknowledge baggage handlers' involvement in smuggling at Australian airports. "We have told them so many times baggage handlers are involved."
Mr Raiah said he could not raise the new allegations in court because the Indonesian legal system only allowed the defence to raise the matters that had already been before the court. However, he said the legal team would seek to use the allegations in an appeal.
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Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: veggie]
#4162811 - 05/11/05 03:55 PM (7 years, 21 days ago) |
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Law Council outraged by Keelty's Corby comments
May 12, 2005 - abc.net.au
The Law Council of Australia says Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty has acted dangerously in publicly commenting on the Schapelle Corby case during the trial.
Corby is facing life imprisonment after being charged with smuggling four kilos of marijuana into Bali.
Mr Keelty has questioned Ms Corby's defence about the involvement of baggage handlers and played down evidence by Victorian prisoner John Ford as unsubstantiated.
Council president John North says if the Commissioner has evidence he should present the information to the Indonesian authorities instead of commenting publicly.
Mr North says he has growing concerns Mr Keelty's comments about Ms Corby's defence could jeopardise her chances of a fair trial.
"Hopefully, the Indonesian judges will ignore whatever he says, but the potential is still there," he said.
"If the Australian police have more information then ... they [should] share this with the Indonesian authorities as they have in the Bali nine case.
"He should either put up, or shut up."
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Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: veggie]
#4163592 - 05/11/05 06:49 PM (7 years, 21 days ago) |
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Qantas can't dismiss Corby-handlers link
May 12, 2005 - seven.com.au
Qantas could not rule out a link between corrupt baggage handlers implicated in a cocaine smuggling racket and claims by Schapelle Corby that handlers planted drugs in her luggage, chief executive Geoff Dixon said on Thursday.
Mr Dixon said he was aware of reports that Corby's boogie-board was processed at Sydney Airport's international terminal on the same day a Qantas baggage handler allegedly smuggled near 10kg of cocaine out of the airport from another plane.
"I can't rule out any link," he said.
"All I can say is that we have looked very carefully over the past five months we've known what's been going on and we haven't found any connections, but I can't say anything more than that."
Corby, 27, is accused of smuggling 4.1kg of marijuana into Bali.
She faces life in prison if judges agree with prosecutor demands when handing down their verdict, tipped to be on May 26.
Corby's lawyers are to make a final plea before a Bali court on Thursday.
Mr Dixon said covert cameras should be installed in baggage handling areas at all airports and in aircraft holds.
The airline said it had worked closely with police during their five month Operation Mocha investigation into an alleged conspiracy to bring up to $15 million worth of cocaine to Australia from South America.
Court documents tendered in a bail application on Wednesday for a man charged over the alleged cocaine importation conspiracy said Qantas baggage handlers were paid $300,000 to smuggle a briefcase containing 9.9 kg of cocaine through Sydney International Airport on October 8 last year.
Mr Dixon said covert cameras should be placed in aircraft holds and other baggage handling areas.
"I think it's getting to the stage were some civil liberties in these situations must be given away," Mr Dixon told the Seven network.
Qantas had written to the federal government asking for assistance in seeking to change state-based legislation to allow the cameras to be installed.
"I certainly think covert cameras are necessary now," Mr Dixon said.
He also defended the majority of Qantas' 38,000 staff as "decent hardworking people".
"You've got maybe one or two and maybe a few more who are involved in this," Mr Dixon said.
"I would defend the great majority of Qantas employees as decent hardworking people and I think that's shown everyday by the way they go about their business."
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Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: veggie]
#4164256 - 05/11/05 09:22 PM (7 years, 21 days ago) |
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Corby in court to make final plea
May 12, 2005 - smh.com.au
Schapelle Corby has arrived at court in Bali where her lawyers will make a final plea in her defence before judges hand down their verdict.
The Gold Coast woman is facing possible life in jail if Indonesian judges convict her of trying to smuggle 4.1 kilograms of marijuana into Bali in October last year.
Today Corby's defence lawyers will have their last chance to push her case that she is an unwitting victim of a drug ring that put drugs in her unlocked boogy board bag.
Adviser Vasu Rasiah said defence lawyers would also focus on comments by Bali's top drug policeman Bambang Sugiarto, who admitted there were gaps in the prosecution case against her.
Members of Corby's family and a group of well-wishers were on hand when she was brought by van from prison to the court complex in Denpasar.
It is expected a date will be set today for a verdict in the case.
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Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: veggie]
#4164479 - 05/11/05 10:07 PM (7 years, 21 days ago) |
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Holy shit. Veggie is an update machine. Keep it up.
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Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: veggie]
#4164573 - 05/11/05 10:27 PM (7 years, 21 days ago) |
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Corby verdict set for May 27
May 12, 2005 - theage.com.au
The Indonesian judges in the Schapelle Corby drug case will hand down their verdict on May 27.
The judges set the date in the Denpasar District Court today after Corby's trial wound up with lawyers making their final plea in her defence.
The Gold Coast woman is facing possible life in jail if judges convict her of trying to smuggle 4.1 kilograms of marijuana into Bali in October last year.
Corby's lawyers today had their last chance to push her claims that she is an unwitting victim of a drug ring that put drugs in her unlocked bodyboard bag.
The judges today declined to listen to new evidence of the alleged involvement of Australian airport baggage handlers in drug smuggling.
However they asked Corby's lawyers to make a written submission on the issue by Monday.
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Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: veggie]
#4165020 - 05/12/05 12:19 AM (7 years, 21 days ago) |
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Defence team demands Keelty resignation
May 12, 2005 - news.com.au
SCHAPELLE Corby's defence team has called for the resignation of Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Mick Keelty.
Ms Corby's Australian lawyer Robin Tampoe and financial backer Ron Bakir said today that Mr Keelty should step down after he described intelligence supporting Ms Corby's defence of being an unwitting drug mule as flimsy.
Ms Corby, 27, is accused of smuggling 4.1kg of marijuana into Bali on October 8 last year and faces life in prison.
"It's our very firm belief that an enormous amount of damage was done by inappropriate comments (made), not just the last few days but over the last few months by Mr Keelty," Mr Tampoe said.
Mr Bakir said Mr Keelty needed to "find himself a new job".
The pair also appealed to the federal Government to seek a pardon from their Indonesian counterparts if Ms Corby was found guilty on May 27.
"If Schapelle Corby is convicted ... we are asking that the Australian Government step in, take ownership and ask for her to be pardoned because what's happening to her is a total injustice," Mr Bakir said.
Earlier, the Law Council said Mr Keelty had acted dangerously in commenting publicly on the Corby defence case.
Law Council of Australia president John North said several comments made by Mr Keelty about the Gold Coast woman's Bali drugs case were potentially harmful.
Mr Keelty was reported this week as saying there was very little intelligence to suggest that baggage handlers were using innocent passengers to traffic drugs between states.
The AFP was aware of baggage handlers on the international side who were involved with the syndicates, but the situation was nothing like the matters raised by Ms Corby's defence lawyers, Mr Keelty said.
On Monday, 15 homes were raided across Sydney as part of Operation Mocha, a five-month operation investigating an alleged conspiracy to import up to $15 million worth of cocaine into Australia.
The alleged plan was to import up to 30kg of cocaine into the country in suitcases carried by drug mules on flights from South America, police said.
Qantas baggage handlers were said in court yesterday to have been paid $300,000 to facilitate the passage of the drugs through Sydney airport.
Ms Corby maintains she did not know there was marijuana in her baggage, and she believes the drugs were planted in her bag at Brisbane airport, possibly by baggage handlers running a domestic drug-smuggling operation.
"Mr Keelty would not be able to make such damaging comments in an Australian case because he would run a grave risk of being found in contempt of court," Mr North said.
Australians deserved more from their chief law enforcement officer, he said.
"Mr Keelty has acted dangerously in attempting to play down these accusations against baggage handlers," Mr North said.
"An Australian law enforcement authority with responsibilities for investigation allegations and providing evidence to prosecutors for production in court should not be commenting publicly on such matters while a case is pending."
Furthermore, Qantas chief executive Geoff Dixon said today that he could not rule out a link between Ms Corby's claims and corrupt baggage handlers implicated in a cocaine-smuggling racket.
Mr Dixon said he was aware of reports that Ms Corby's bodyboard was processed at Sydney airport's international terminal on the same day a Qantas baggage handler allegedly smuggled nearly 10kg of cocaine out of the airport from another plane.
"I can't rule out any link," he said. "All I can say is that we have looked very carefully over the past five months we've known what's been going on and we haven't found any connections, but I can't say anything more than that."
Mr Dixon said covert cameras should be installed in baggage-handling areas at all airports and in aircraft holds.
The airline said it had worked closely with police during their five month Operation Mocha investigation into an alleged conspiracy to bring up to $15 million worth of cocaine to Australia from South America.
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Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: veggie]
#4166162 - 05/12/05 10:51 AM (7 years, 20 days ago) |
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Drugs' snug fit led Aussie officers to suspect Corby
May 13, 2005 - theaustralian.news.com.au
AUSTRALIAN police scepticism about Schapelle Corby's innocence is based on her failure to explain how a 4kg bag of cannabis detected in Bali fitted so snugly into the front pouch of her bodyboard bag and why she did not notice the extra weight.
Senior officers in three forces have privately said it was "implausible" the drugs had been randomly placed in the 27-year-old Gold Coast beauty student's luggage by baggage handlers waiting for an appropriate-sized bag.
One officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, questioned why Corby had not noticed that her bag, supposedly containing only a lightweight bodyboard and flippers, had become at least twice as heavy when she collected it from the baggage carousel at Denpasar airport before approaching the Customs check.
Ms Corby's Australian lawyer Robin Tampoe last night rejected claims the marijuana was an exact fit for a bodyboard bag, describing them as "absolute nonsense".
"It's a complete load of crap, it's completely insane," he said.
He said the defence team steadfastly maintained its position that the cannabis was put into the bag by a corrupt baggage handler.
Police have explored whether Ms Corby's luggage could have come into contact with allegedly corrupt baggage handlers on duty at Sydney airport on October 8, when she embarked on her ill-fated trip.
The Australian revealed yesterday that Ms Corby's flight coincided with the importation the same morning of a suitcase containing 9.99kg of cocaine that an allegedly corrupt baggage handler ensured would avoid Customs.
Ms Corby's Gold Coast-based financial backer, Ron Bakir, and Mr Tampoe yesterday called for Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty to stand down after he described as "flimsy" her defence of being an unwitting drug mule. Their concerns were echoed by Law Council of Australia president John North QC, who said Mr Keelty would have "run a grave risk of being found in contempt of court" if Ms Corby were being tried here.
Qantas chief executive Geoff Dixon yesterday revealed that the baggage-handling area in Sydney had been under police surveillance for six months as part of the recent cocaine operation. It is not known whether the surveillance extended back to last October.
A last-ditch effort by Ms Corby's lawyers to tell judges of new developments in her case half-succeeded yesterday, when chief judge Linton Sirait refused to watch a compilation of Australian and Indonesian television programs, but agreed later to read translated transcripts.
Yet Judge Sirait said alleged drug-smuggling in Australian airports would not be relevant to a Balinese court, cruelling much of the defence team's final submission.
The Indonesian show featured Bali's drug squad chief questioning flaws in the prosecution case.
Judge Sirait adjourned the trial until May 27, when the three judges will hand down their verdict.
Ms Corby's defence lawyers did not attempt to submit any information about the alleged cocaine-smuggling in Australia, which came to light this week.
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Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: veggie]
#4169595 - 05/13/05 01:35 AM (7 years, 20 days ago) |
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Activists demand death for Corby
May 13, 2005 - dailytelegraph.news.com.au
INDONESIAN anti-drug campaigners are demanding the judges in the Schapelle Corby case make an example of the 27-year-old accused drug smuggler when they bring down their verdict in two weeks.
"It is best if they give her the death sentence or life imprisonment," said Anak Agung Semara Adhyana, the secretary general of the Bali chapter of GRANAT, the nation's anti-narcotics movement.
Prosecutors in Corby's case want life imprisonment and not the death penalty for the Gold Coast woman, who is accused of trying to smuggle 4.1kg of cannabis into Bali.
But Adhyana said: "We want her death.
"It is impossible for her to be set free. It would be a bad precedent for the Indonesian justice system."
At an early stage of Corby's trial, placard-waving members of the movement protested inside the court, triggering an angry confrontation with members of her family.
The three judges hearing the case are now considering their decision after Corby's defence team delivered a final submission in the Denpasar District Court yesterday, appealing for her acquittal.
Under Indonesian legal procedure, which has no jury system, judges decide whether a defendant is innocent or guilty. At the same time they also pass sentence if it is required.
With prosecutors recommending that she be locked away for life, it is highly unlikely - though not impossible - that judges will order she be executed by firing squad when they deliver their verdict on May 27.
Indonesian police privately expect a tough penalty, perhaps 10 to 20 years imprisonment.
Corby will spend the next fortnight as she has the months since her arrest at Denpasar airport last October - in a cell in Bali's Kerobokan Prison she shares with eight women.
Her sister Mercedes described the conditions as terrible. She said the cell is about three metres by three metres or "about the size of a child's bedroom".
A toilet is in one corner and each inmate receives a ration of one bucket of water a day to bathe and do laundry. A fluorescent light is always switched on.
Corby sleeps with an eye mask on a thin mattress on the floor - both provided by her family who also buy her bottled water and food.
At one emotionally-charged point in her trial, Corby sobbed that she did not know how long she could cope with the stress and conditions of her imprisonment.
Despite widespread expectation of a conviction and a heavy jail term, Corby's family say they remain optimistic that she will be found not guilty.
They are taking solace in tens of thousands of messages of support they say they have received.
However, Vasu Rasiah, an adviser to the defence team, said a May 27 acquittal probably would not mean instant freedom for Corby.
Instead, prosecutors would likely try to keep her behind bars while they appeal to a higher court.
A prosecution appeal would also be likely if the judges found her guilty but imposed a relatively light sentence.
The defence would appeal "within a matter of days" if she is found guilty, Vasu said.
"There's a long way to go in the appeals process, whatever the verdict" he said. "Schapelle is aware of this."
Anti-drug campaigner Adhyana said judges must send a strong message to Australia about Indonesia's war on drug trafficking.
He acknowledged, though, that many in Australia believed Corby was innocent.
"It is as if one of the family has been caught," he said. "It's natural for them to think she is innocent. But she was caught in the act with so much of the drug."
Adhyana said Indonesia must take harsh action against drug offenders to protect its next generation.
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Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: veggie]
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I can't follow this trial anymore. I get too digustingly sick everytime I read. 
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Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: veggie]
#4174254 - 05/14/05 10:07 AM (7 years, 18 days ago) |
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Schapelle begs PM to rescue her
May 15, 2005 - themercury.news.com.au
SCHAPELLE Corby made a desperate personal plea for help to Prime Minister John Howard from her Bali jail cell yesterday.
In her first direct plea to Mr Howard, the accused drug trafficker begged him for justice, saying she doesn't know how much longer she can survive behind bars.
In the heartfelt cry for help, an anguished Corby, 27, said: "Mr Howard, as a father and as a leader, I plead for your help. I did not do this. I beg for justice.
"I don't know how much longer I can do this. Please bring me home. Please."
Her message from the jail cell came as there was growing belief that baggage handlers in Australia may have planted the marijuana in her luggage.
But Mr Howard yesterday said he could not interfere in the judicial process of another country.
"I feel for her. I understand why there's a lot of public sympathy for her," Mr Howard said.
"I would simply say that I hope justice is done and it's a fair and true verdict."
But he added: "I would ask the rhetorical question: My fellow Australians, if a foreigner were to come to Australia and a foreign government were to start telling us how we should handle (it), we would react very angrily to that."
Her message comes as three Denpasar District Court judges ponder their verdict.
Her Australian legal team has renewed requests for any video surveillance footage at Sydney airport on the day she left for Bali - the day baggage handlers allegedly allowed 10kg of cocaine to be shipped through the airport.
Revelations that Australian Federal Police conducted an airport undercover operation for months has given the team hope of obtaining surveillance footage.
Yesterday Corby's backer Ron Bakir said the team was awaiting an answer.
"We have requested from the federal police and Qantas whatever surveillance equipment they have," Mr Bakir said.
Corby's Bali lawyers are translating into Indonesian Australian media reports about the cocaine bust. These will be given to the judges tomorrow.
"We are going to try everything we possibly can. We will fire every bit of ammunition we have," Mr Bakir said.
"Twenty-four/seven we are working on trying to get information. We have been arguing that she is a victim of a drug syndicate, that she is an unknowing mule and they used her.
"We asked for someone from the AFP to testify that there was an investigation into baggage handlers," he said.
Denpasar District Court will hand down a verdict on May 27. If Corby is found guilty, judges will sentence her that day.
The Gold Coast woman has sent handwritten letters to the judges and the prosecutor exhorting them to find her not guilty and let her go home.
In one to the judges, she says she is barely scraping up enough strength to survive each day.
"Please find in your heart to let me go home. I need to go home," she wrote.
And to prosecutor Ida Bagus Wiswantanu, Ms Corby wrote: "I do believe the only mistake I have made in coming to this beautiful country of yours (yes, I still love and think this is a beautiful country) is not putting locks on my bags.
"Each day that goes by is becoming harder and harder for me, my energy, my strength is fast draining to almost empty. Please Mr Ida Bagus, I cannot (physically) survive here much longer. Please find in your heart to let me go home to my family, where I belong, Sincerely, Schapelle Corby."
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Australia supports defence of Bali drug accused
May 15, 2005 - reuters.co.uk
CANBERRA (Reuters) - The Australian government has written to an Indonesian court to support the defence of 27-year old Australian woman Schapelle Corby, who faces life in prison on charges of smuggling drugs into the resort island of Bali.
Corby, who will find out on May 27 if she is convicted for allegedly smuggling 4.1 kg (9lb) of marijuana into Bali, has said the drugs were planted in her luggage and corrupt baggage handlers in Australia could be responsible.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Sunday said the government had written to the court to detail new allegations against Australian airport baggage handlers following last week's arrest of 15 people in Australia on charges of importing drugs.
"At the request of her lawyers, the government ... has provided a letter which will be tendered to the court outlining what has happened in relation to allegations involving baggage handlers," Howard told Australian television.
Howard said he would not interfere with the Indonesian justice system, but hoped the courts would deliver a "true and fair and just verdict".
The Corby case has attracted widespread publicity in Australia, including a front page newspaper story on Sunday, where Corby pleads with Howard to intervene.
"Mr Howard, as a father and as a leader, I plead for your help. I did not do this. I beg for justice," Corby told the Sunday Herald Sun newspaper.
The Corby case has put Bali under the spotlight, with Indonesia's police chief labelling it a hub for international drug trafficking syndicates.
In April, Indonesian police arrested nine Australians in Bali for alleged heroin trafficking. They have yet to face trial.
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Corby team pins hope on letter
May 15, 2005 - heraldsun.news.com.au
A LETTER from the Australian Government to the Bali court trying Gold Coast woman Schapelle Corby on drug smuggling charges has been welcomed by her defence team.
The letter outlines allegations about the involvement of Australian baggage handlers in drug smuggling at Sydney airport.
It was drawn up following the charging last week or 15 people after 9.9kg of cocaine was shipped through Sydney airport, allegedly with the aid of corrupt baggage handlers. One Qantas baggage handler has been stood down.
Gold Coast businessman Ron Bakir, who is bankrolling Ms Corby's legal battle said it was disappointing it had taken so long for the Australian Government to do what he and the legal team had been calling for.
But he said: "We appreciate it very, very much and we thank (Foreign Minister Alexander) Mr Downer and Prime Minister Howard for that letter.
"For quite a while we have been asking both the Government and the federal police to come out and corroborate that story. They haven't until this letter, and it's crucial for us to have that letter.
"It's disappointing that it's taken so long, but we thank them very much."
He said the whole defence team was hoping the letter would have a strong influence on the Indonesian judges in the Denpasar District Court in deciding their verdict.
"It's very important to have that letter because we need to prove to the Indonesian authorities that there is a problem in Australia," Mr Bakir said.
"We have been saying it for a number of months that there is a problem in Australia which involves baggage handlers.
"They are involved in corruption, they are involved in smuggling and hopefully this letter will be very, very good for our case," Mr Bakir said.
Mr Bakir said the legal team would continue to fight until the verdict on May 27, even though the time for defence evidence to be presented was ending.
"We are collating every bit of information we can possibly obtain to submit by midday tomorrow to the courts and we will fire every arrow we have I guess and any other information that comes to light we will try no doubt to submit it - whether the judges decide to take it or not we are going to try anyway," Mr Bakir said.
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