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 Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: veggie]
#4216498 - 05/24/05 08:53 PM (7 years, 8 days ago) |
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Australia ready to help Corby, if convicted.
May 25, 2005 - thecouriermail.news.com.au
AUSTRALIA has officials ready to go to Indonesia to negotiate a prisoner transfer for Schapelle Corby if she is found guilty of drug smuggling on Friday, Justice Minister Chris Ellison said today.
Corby, a 27-year-old former beauty student from the Gold Coast, will find out on Friday whether she will go to prison on a charge of trying to smuggle 4.1kg of marijuana into Indonesia last October.
A prisoner transfer agreement between Australia and Indonesia is being negotiated but an interim deal to get Corby back to Australia sooner is being contemplated.
"We don't want to pre-empt in any way the decision of the Indonesian court this Friday," Senator Ellison told the Nine Network today.
"But in the event that Schapelle Corby is found guilty and sentenced, then we'll be looking at a situation where there could be a possible transfer."
He said the proposal had not been put to the Indonesians because the government wanted to see what happened on Friday.
"But we have an agreement that our officials will travel to Indonesia in early June and that's a very positive step forward in the negotiation of this agreement."
Senator Ellison said the idea of a prisoner transfer agreement with Indonesia had been being discussed for some time.
"I've sent a draft text to Indonesia for their consideration and we have a team of officials who are going up to Indonesia in early June," he said.
"But these things do take time.
"Of course we have to pursue that agreement through its normal course.
"If that does take time, we could look at an interim arrangement for Schapelle Corby.
"But that remains to be seen."
Senator Ellison also cautioned that an appeal process was also available to Corby if she was convicted.
"If Schapelle Corby embarked upon an appeal process, that could take some time in itself," he said.
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Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: veggie]
#4218087 - 05/25/05 09:34 AM (7 years, 7 days ago) |
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Jakarta wary of Corby repatriation deal
May 26, 2005 - smh.com.au
The federal Justice Minister, Chris Ellison, has refused to say why he was prepared to try to negotiate a special deal with Indonesia to bring Schapelle Corby home if she is convicted tomorrow, before making a similar effort for any other Australian in a foreign jail.
He also would not say what criteria the Government used when determining whether or not to try to secure an ad hoc deal for a single convict.
Yesterday, Senator Ellison said he had sent a draft text of the treaty to Indonesia. A team of officials would be going there in June to establish negotiations, but if that process "does take some time, then we could look at an interim arrangement for Schapelle Corby". He noted that if Corby were convicted, there would be an appeal process before any repatriation could take place.
In Jakarta, Indonesia's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Marty Natalegawa, said the relationship between Jakarta and Canberra would be able to absorb any fallout from the Corby case.
However, he reacted warily to Senator Ellison's suggestion for a one-off prisoner transfer for Corby if she is convicted. Mr Natalegawa said Indonesia was open to agreeing to a general treaty but "we would have to be extremely careful" about cutting a deal only for Corby. "This is like a slippery slope," he said. "If we make a special arrangement in this case, an argument might be made when other cases come up by the loved ones of people who get into trouble."
An international law expert at Sydney University, Professor Don Rothwell, said a one-off deal for Corby would be unprecedented and much would depend on whether or not Indonesia would be prepared to accommodate Australia's wishes politically.
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Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: veggie]
#4218098 - 05/25/05 09:37 AM (7 years, 7 days ago) |
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Schapelle's assassination fears
May 26, 2005 - dailytelegraph.news.com.au
SCHAPELLE Corby lives in terror that an extremist may try to kill her on the way to court to hear the verdict in her drug trial tomorrow.
Speaking from inside Bali's Kerobokan jail, she said she was terrified a lunatic may make an assassination bid during the chaos as she is led from her cell to the court.
"Someone might come and try to stab me," she told a reporter from radio station 2GB who was smuggled into the jail by her main backer, businessman Ron Bakir.
Corby, 27, said the threat scared her more than the verdict, which could be a death sentence or life in prison.
During the hour-long interview, her emotions switched between laughter and tears.
Corby said she believed she would be found not guilty of smuggling 4.1kg of cannabis and would be flying to her Gold Coast home with her family immediately after the verdict.
During the interview, Corby cheekily asked for the craziest rumour being spread about her, before laughing: "I have never been an escort and I am not pregnant."
Wearing short jeans, a white T-shirt and a pink bandana, she also demanded that she was not asked questions about her love life.
"Don't mention anything about kissing, because I haven't been kissed or kissed anyone in nine months," she said.
They were lighter moments, punctuated by bouts of tears. She told the reporter she was shocked and grateful for the support she is receiving from Australians.
But when visiting time was over, she held her head in her hands and wept: "I don't want to go back to my cell."
The reporter described her as "the loneliest girl in the world".
She was also said to have developed a "close bond" with Bakir, but it was not a romance. Bakir flew back into Bali on Tuesday following his apology for making bribery allegations against Indonesian legal officials.
He said: "She is struggling, the girl is struggling. You can only imagine the pressure she is under, you can only imagine. She thanks Australia and she thanks everybody for all their support.
"She keeps saying that without them she could not do it. Hopefully she will be going home on Friday. We are trying to keep her positive and we will see how we go."
Corby's Gold Coast lawyer Robin Tampoe arrived at the jail wearing a Corby Defence Team T-shirt featuring a cartoon character girl asking a man in a camel suit: "Can you explain why, Mr Keelty, you consider the Corby defence to be flimsy?"
The camel suit is a reference to a recent case where a Qantas baggage handler at Sydney airport was sacked for rifling through a passenger's luggage, taking out a camel suit and wearing it on the tarmac.
Mr Tampoe said they had tried to joke with Corby but she became emotional. "She knows Australia is right behind her," he said.
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Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: veggie]
#4218982 - 05/25/05 02:32 PM (7 years, 7 days ago) |
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Corby rejects sedatives to remain alert
May 26, 2005 - thecouriermail.news.com.au
ACCUSED drug smuggler Schapelle Corby prayed with her doctor yesterday and told her she did not want sedatives to help her cope with tomorrow's Indonesian court verdict, saying that she would rather be fully alert for what transpires.
Dr Conny Pangkahila was among yesterday's visitors to Bali's Kerobokan Jail.
She and Corby, both Christians, said a short prayer together and the doctor took her some spiritual books dealing with people facing bad situations.
"She is fine, she is healthy. She wants to be without any medication (tomorrow) so she can understand what is happening," Dr Pangkahila said.
Also visiting yesterday were mobile phone dealer Ron Bakir and Gold Coast lawyer Robin Tampoe.
Both emerged expressing concern for the 27-year-old's wellbeing but with a fervent hope that "justice prevails" when the three judges take their place in the Denpasar District Court to pronounce judgment on Corby.
"She is struggling, the girl is struggling. You can only imagine the pressure she is under, you can only imagine," Mr Bakir said.
"We are trying to keep her positive and we will see how we go.
"She is a strong girl. We hope justice prevails. She thinks she is coming home on Friday and we hope that is the case," he said.
Mr Tampoe arrived at the jail wearing a "Corby Defence Team" T-shirt. On the back it featured a cartoon character girl asking a man in a camel suit: "Can you explain why Mr Keelty, you consider the Corby defence to be flimsy?"
The statement refers to comments made by Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty in the past few weeks regarding the defence case.
The camel suit is a reference to a recent case where a Qantas baggage handler at Sydney airport was sacked for rifling through a passenger's luggage, taking out a camel suit and wearing it on the tarmac.
Corby has consistently denied any knowledge of marijuana found in her unlocked boogie board bag, claiming it was planted.
Mr Tampoe said that during the visit they had tried to have a joke with Corby but that she had become emotional.
"She tries so hard, that's the thing, she even tries hard with us but then she can't maintain it and she gets very upset. She was very emotional," Mr Tampoe said.
"She tries very hard and that's the way she maintains her dignity and the moment that starts to slip will be a huge concern. She is trying really, really hard," he said.
Indonesian anti-drug protesters, who initially took a hardline stance against Corby, demanding during the trial's earliest days that she be put to death, said yesterday they were yet to decide whether they would be at the court tomorrow and if so, how many.
Granat, the anti-narcotics protest group, was planning a meeting for last night to decide on what action it would take.
Meanwhile, an argument broke out at the court yesterday, with the Indonesian press protesting the way Australian media, and particularly Channel 7, had taken over the court grounds, setting up podia and makeshift studios and with cabling running everywhere.
Late yesterday, Judge Linton Sirait, chief of the three-judge bench, was threatening to ban all cameras from inside the courtroom. Initially, he had agreed to allow a limited number of Australian and Indonesian cameras inside to provide footage and photographs on a pool basis.
But the arrangement, along with TV plans for live coverage of the verdict from the cameras stationed inside, was in chaos.
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Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: veggie]
#4219432 - 05/25/05 04:22 PM (7 years, 7 days ago) |
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What time will the verdict come down? Anyone know. God help that girl now.
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Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: Photoguy]
#4219609 - 05/25/05 05:14 PM (7 years, 7 days ago) |
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>What time will the verdict come down?
The verdict will be handed down Friday, May 27th morning (Bali time). I don't know the exact time, but I am following this story and will post the verdict in this thread when announced.
Edited by veggie (05/26/05 01:58 AM)
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Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: veggie]
#4220035 - 05/25/05 07:01 PM (7 years, 7 days ago) |
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Also visiting yesterday were mobile phone dealer Ron Bakir and Gold Coast lawyer Robin Tampoe.
I'm probably missing something but what business would a mobile phone dealer have with Corby?
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Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: veggie]
#4221298 - 05/26/05 01:56 AM (7 years, 6 days ago) |
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Corby spends tearful hours with parents
May 26, 2005 - theage.com.au
Schapelle Corby has been granted two tearful hours with her mother and father on the eve of her judgment day, amid fears she won't be able to cope with a possible guilty verdict and long jail sentence.
Meanwhile, Bali police have responded to safety fears by pledging tight security around the island's main courthouse when a three-judge panel hands down its verdict in Corby's drug smuggling trial.
Corby's mother Rosleigh Rose and her terminally ill father Michael Corby emerged stony-faced from a visit to their daughter in Bali's Kerobokan prison, pushing past waiting media.
When asked how her daughter was, Rose replied only: "Very stressed".
Later Rose issued a last appeal, telling reporters: "Let my daughter come home - she's innocent, you know that."
Officially, Corby's defence team says it is expecting an acquittal on charges she tried to smuggle 4.1kg of marijuana into Denpasar Airport last October.
However, there is no escaping the sense of gloom that seems to have come over the lawyers in the past few days.
Defence lawyer Lily Lubis voiced fears about what would happen if Corby was convicted and jailed.
"She won't survive, she won't survive," she said.
"God, please no, because she is innocent."
Defence lawyer Erwin Siregar said if the judges' verdict was guilty: "We will not wait one day to appeal. Not one day, not one week."
Corby's financial backer Ron Bakir said little after visiting Corby separately.
But asked whether he thought the 27-year-old Gold Coast woman would be able to cope with a lengthy prison term, he said: "I don't think so."
In contrast, Indonesian prosecutors appear confident of securing a conviction.
They hope the judges will follow their recommendation that Corby be sentenced to life in prison although, on paper at least, the charges could still attract the death penalty.
"Let's just wait until the verdict," said a smiling junior prosecutor, Siti Sawiyah.
The trial's chief judge, Linton Sirait, claims to have never acquitted a drug case during his career of more than 500 criminal trials.
He has appeared unmoved by Corby's emotion-charged pleas of innocence.
Sirait said the Corby decision would be handed down on schedule from 9am local time (1100 AEST), with the three judges set to read a lengthy statement before announcing their verdict.
He said the court had conducted a fair and honest trial according to Indonesian legal standards and he was unconcerned by the controversy it has stirred in Australia.
He has also not reacted to Corby's request that Prime Minister John Howard and Indonesian President Bambang Yudhoyono intercede to save her.
The judge has expressed surprise at the saturation coverage of Corby's trial by the Australian media.
"Why are you all here?" he said. "Why are you making it into a big deal?"
Sirait said he was certain police would maintain security at court and that the verdict hearing would proceed smoothly.
Corby is said to be worried that an extremist might try to attack her at the hearing.
Bakir also voiced concerns about security, telling Network Ten: "If something does happen to the girl tomorrow no-one would ever live with themselves."
Bali police spokesman A S Reniban said more than 100 officers would guard the court complex tomorrow while members of the elite mobile brigade, sometimes used to quell rioting and unrest, would be on stand-by nearby.
Everyone attending, including Corby's family as well as supporters and Australian tourists, will pass through a metal detector, while there will also be weapon searches.
To maintain the dignity of the proceedings, to be televised live in Australia, there will be a ban on shorts and flimsy clothing. All mobile phones must be switched off.
"It will be safe. There will be nothing to worry about," said Reniban. "It is our duty to guard her."
Meanwhile, Indonesia's government appeared to rule out a suggestion from Canberra that Schapelle Corby be allowed to serve her sentence back home if she is found guilty.
"We remain to be convinced that there is a need for this," Foreign Ministry spokesman Marty Natalegawa said of the proposal, which Australia has yet to officially make.
"It would set a precedent where there is no need for one. Later on, every country will want one."
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Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: veggie]
#4222604 - 05/26/05 11:55 AM (7 years, 6 days ago) |
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Squalid cell that awaits Schapelle
May 27, 2005 - theaustralian.news.com.au
Just hours before she learns her fate, Schapelle Corby has sent a message to Australians to pray for her today.
"Australia, today is my day. Please pray for me. I pray for justice every day," Corby said late yesterday from her jail cell. "I want to go home."
"Don't forget me, I have done nothing wrong. Please believe in me," the 27-year-old said from Kerobokan Jail on the eve of today's verdict in her drug smuggling trial.
The three judges in the Schapelle Corby trial had their last meeting yesterday to decide whether the beauty school student will spend the rest of her life locked in a crowded and dark jail cell for up to 20 hours a day.
Pictures taken inside Kerobokan jail - where Corby has been held for the past nine months - reveal cramped living conditions for the up to five people who sleep, eat and wash in the triangular-shaped room, less than 3x3m in size.
The photos, taken from the jail's men's quarters, show prisoners preparing their food next to a grimy squat toilet in their cell.
Prisoners can only wash themselves with a small bucket and ladel and, with only one bunk bed per room, some are forced to sleep on the floor.
Little light comes into the grubby cells, in which prisoners are forced to spend the majority of their days and nights.
The judges had their last meeting or "musyawarah" yesterday and decided on the verdict.
"It's done," said chief judge Linton Sirait who, along with his two fellow judges, has never acquitted a defendant. "There were no disagreements."
Prosecutor Ida Bagus Wiswantanu, who has been vilified in Australian emails to Indonesian websites, said he hoped Australians would accept the judges' decision. "The hope is that they (Australians) will respect the decision by judges in Indonesia, because it's based on fact and evidence," he said, without specifying whether he had been forewarned of the verdict.
Most analysts now expect Ms Corby to be convicted and sentenced to a lengthy jail term, and Mr Wiswantanu earlier formally recommended life in prison. In the final hours before she learns how her life will unfold in the years to come, Corby seemed in good spirits, according to visitors to Kerobokan prison yesterday. Her mother, Rosleigh Rose, who visited with Ms Corby's extremely ill father, Michael Corby, said Schapelle was "very stressed".
Ms Corby's financial backer Ron Bakir also visited, saying he didn't think she would last long in prison if she was convicted. Two officials from the Australian consulate-general in Bali also saw Ms Corby, but they refused to discuss her condition, saying she had specifically asked them not to.
Mr Wiswantanu said the prison doctor would again check Ms Corby's health this morning, before the hearing, to ensure she was fit to hear the verdict. "This is normal," he said.
As many as 100 officers, including a bomb squad, will guard Denpasar District Court today, and none of the other three courtrooms will be used.
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Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: veggie]
#4222735 - 05/26/05 12:34 PM (7 years, 6 days ago) |
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I'm praying for you Schapelle! I beleive in my heart that things will turn out alright for Schapelle Corby, convicted or not.
Dblaney: Ron Bakir (an australian mobile phone dealer) has been backing Schapelle Corby financially the whole 8 or 9 months she's been in there. He's just a very generous, heartful guy.
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Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: veggie]
#4222871 - 05/26/05 01:13 PM (7 years, 6 days ago) |
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please God, let this girl go home. i'm making a commitment to You to raise awareness to others in support of this girl regardless of the outcome, but please God, let this girl go home.
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#4223209 - 05/26/05 02:32 PM (7 years, 6 days ago) |
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It is not going to happen friends. I am sad to say this, but I think we all know that she will be found guilty.
It is time to form an elite group of freedom fighters to fight injustice across the world.
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Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: Photoguy]
#4223422 - 05/26/05 03:38 PM (7 years, 6 days ago) |
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well, i'm coming down on acid and a little childhood innocence in letting there be the possibility of a miracle of a just world, if at least for just this istant, is informing to myself and feels right. i certainly won't argue that we need to take a stand.
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#4223622 - 05/26/05 04:33 PM (7 years, 6 days ago) |
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I truely beleive though, that if she is found guilty (which is most probable), things will turn out good for her within 5 or 6 so years. I know, that's still a lot of time, but it's better than a life sentence.
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The verdict is due soonish. They are showing the courtroom live on TV now. I'll post the verdict as it comes in if Veggie does not first. That poor poor girl.
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Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: veggie]
#4224111 - 05/26/05 06:58 PM (7 years, 6 days ago) |
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Corby wears black for judgement day
May 27, 2005 - smh.com.au
A nervous Schapelle Corby has been closing her eyes and taking deep breaths in the Denpasar courtroom where she will soon learn her fate on drug trafficking charges.
Corby, wearing a black silk blouse and pink pants, was half-carried into the court by about 10 Indonesian police officer.
But Corby's condition seemed to improve after she sat down, immediately sharing smiles with friends and family in the public gallery.
Roseleigh Rose, her mother, was carried into court by other members of her family, as was her terminally ill father Michael Corby. Both had to push through a media scrum near the entrance to the court.
Corby spoke intently with her legal team as she waited for the hearing to begin, but also appeared to share a joke with one of her lawyers.
Chief Judge Linton Sirait is expected to take more than two hours to run through the evidence for and against Corby before delivering a verdict on each.
Corby will not be fully aware of the proceedings, which will be delivered in Bahasa Indonesia, and will have to rely on sporadic updates from her interpreter.
The judges have considered three separate charges. The most serious, importing a narcotic, will be decided first. Should they find her not guilty on that charge, it will not mean freedom for Ms Corby.
They may still find her guilty of transitting a drug, which attracts life in prison, or for possession, which could put Ms Corby in prison for 10 years.
The panel of three judges finalised its decision days ago, with one local paper speculating that a 15-year jail term would be announced for the 27-year-old.
The weather in Denpasar is typically muggy, but much worse inside the cramped courtroom.
With plans to allocate one seat inside the court to each media organisation scrapped, journalists queued for hours this morning before scrambling for a seat when the doors were opened.
The court resembles a Hollywood film set in parts, with television stations setting up marquees and temporary television sets for their live coverage back to Australia.
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Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: veggie]
#4224244 - 05/26/05 07:30 PM (7 years, 6 days ago) |
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Judge says Corby admitted marijuana was hers
May 27, 2005 - theage.com.au
The chief judge in the Schapelle Corby case has said it is "true" Corby admitted a bag containing 4.1 kilograms of marijuana was hers, according to a court translator.
Judge Linton Sirait has begun his summing up to a courtroom packed with media, family and onlookers.
Corby, 27, is answering three charges. She faces the death penalty if convicted of importing a narcotic, a maximum of life imprisonment for transiting a drug, and a maximum of 10 years' jail for possession.
Earlier, Corby, wearing a black silk blouse and pink pants, was half-carried into the court by about 10 Indonesian police officers.
Roseleigh Rose, her mother, was carried into court by other members of her family, as was her terminally ill father Michael Corby.
Both has to push through the large media scrum near the entrance to the court.
Occasionally taking deep breaths and closing her eyes, Corby waited for the court proceedings to begin in the stifling courtroom.
But her condition seemed to improve after she sat down, immediately sharing smiles with friends and family in the public gallery.
Corby then stood as the three judges, wearing black and red robes, filed into the court under police escort.
The Australian was then joined by her translator as Chief Judge Linton Sirait addressed her.
At one stage, Corby asked how long the judge would take to read the judgement.
In court Corby wiped her hands on a towel under her chair, before helping her lawyer Lily Lubis tie her legal robe.
Sirait began reading the judgement in Indonesian, his words relayed to Corby by her translator.
According to Corby's translator, whose voice is being broadcast live on Sky TV, the judge then went over the events of the day last October when customs officers at Bali airport found marijuana in Corby's bodyboard bag.
Sirait said the "suspect" Corby had admitted the drugs were hers, referring to testimony by Indonesian customs officers.
Chief Judge Linton Sirait is expected to take more than two hours to run through the evidence for and against Corby before delivering a verdict on three charges.
But Corby will not be fully aware of the proceedings, which will be delivered in Bahasa Indonesian, and will have to rely on sporadic updates from her interpreter.
The panel of three judges finalised its decision days ago, with one local paper speculating that a 15-year jail term would be announced for the 27-year-old.
The weather in Denpasar is typically muggy, but will be much worse inside the cramped courtroom.
With plans to allocate one seat inside the court to each media organisation scrapped, journalists lined up for hours to attempt to scramble a seat when the doors are opened.
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Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: veggie]
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The chief judge in the Schapelle Corby case has said it is "true" Corby admitted a bag containing 4.1 kilograms of marijuana was hers, according to a court translator.
I wish they would report correctly. When the judge says 'It is true' - he is stating what one of the witness' has said ie)It is true this witness said. He has also said 'It is true' that Schapelle said the marijuana was not hers. Damn papers.
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Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: veggie]
#4224397 - 05/26/05 08:28 PM (7 years, 6 days ago) |
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PM says Australians must accept Corby verdict
May 27, 2005 - theage.com.au
The Prime Minister says Australians must accept the verdict set to be handed down by an Indonesian court in the Schapelle Corby drugs smuggling case.
As judges were delivering their verdict in a Denpasar court, Mr Howard said he sympathised with Corby.
"I hope the verdict is a true verdict, a just verdict and a fair verdict," he said while announced a $1 billion road funding project in Geelong today.
"I think the entire nation feels for this girl. I make no statement about her guilty or innocence. We have to trust the Indonesian justice system.
"As a father of young adult children, you can't help - guilty or innocent - feel for her but we have to respect the justice systems of other countries.
Mr Howard said he believed the Australian government had done all it could for Schapelle Corby, including organising the transfer of Victorian prisoner John Ford to testify on her behalf.
"I do ask the Australian people to accept and understand that when Australians go abroad they are subject to the justice system of the countries they visit.
"Just as when foreigners visit our country they are subject to our justice system.
"Just as we would resent the leaders of other countries telling us how to run our justice system, we must accept and understand that the leaders of other countries would resent us telling them how to conduct and run their justice system."
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Re: Schapelle Corby trial updates [Re: veggie]
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Schapelle Corby Found Guilty
20 years jail for Corby
May 27, 2005 - theage.com.au
Schapelle Corby has received a 20-year jail term after being found guilty of importing marijuana - sparking fury among her family in court.
Corby has earlier begun weeping and rocking back-and-forth on her chair after learning that the judges have found the charges against her as proven - one step below guilt under Indonesian law - before Chief Judge Linton Sirait announced the verdict.
The 27-year-old looked stunned as the verdict was translated for her, but turned around to urge her family to stop their shouting.
She then hugged lawyer Lily Lupis while members of the gallery voiced their outrage.
The van has now taken Corby off to prison.
"We have decided firstly that the defendant Schapelle Corby has been proven convincingly to be guilty of the crime of importation of a schedule one narcotic," the judges said.
"The prison sentence of 20 years is handed down with a fine of 100 million rupiah.
"If this is not paid, an additional six months will be added to the sentence"
At this point screams broke out in the courtroom.
The drugs plus other personal effects of Corby's were ordered to be confiscated and burned.
Corby has until next Wednesday to appeal the sentence.
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