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 Ekstaza
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IgnatiusJReilly said:
Even if it were heroin, she wouldn't be deserving of that kind of punishment.
In Bali, she could have been shot for what they accused her of. Since she's probably inocent this ruling sucks major ass, but she could have ended up a whole lot worse.
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#4803964 - 10/14/05 02:49 PM (6 years, 7 months ago) |
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Prisoner swap deal sped up
October 15, 2005 - news.com.au
A PRISONER transfer deal that could bring convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby back to Australia is set to be signed within months.
Justice Minister Chris Ellison arrived home yesterday after a breakthrough in talks with Indonesia's Law Minister, Hamid Awaludin, on a draft proposal of the agreement.
Senator Ellison said the two countries were more than 80 per cent towards signing a deal.
Mr Awaludin confirmed he could sign the deal without ratification by the Indonesian Parliament, which is notoriously slow and can be unco-operative.
Australian sources said they were confident the deal would be signed early next year, not late next year as had been expected.
Senator Ellison said his Indonesian counterpart had been very supportive of the proposal.
"They believe they can implement it without legislation," he said.
"Originally they thought they had to legislate to put it in place but today they told us they didn't think it was necessary."
Corby was reportedly inconsolable after hearing this week her appeal against her conviction had been unsuccessful.
The Denpasar High Court cut the sentence from 20 years to 15 years.
But a few blocks remain before the prisoner-transfer deal is finalised.
Senator Ellison is hoping to ensure the deal is retrospective to allow prisoners like Corby, who have already been convicted, to benefit.
But Australia will have to take Indonesia's lead on this and the deal will probably be signed whether it is retrospective or not.
The deal was proposed before Corby was arrested in October last year, but Senator Ellison and Attorney-General Philip Ruddock have tried to speed up talks.
The agreement is based on a similar deal recently signed with Thailand, which allows prisoners to return home to Australia after they had served either one-third of their sentence or four years - whichever is the least - before they can be transferred home.
"I agree you've got to have a minimum period but we're not as fussed about it being as lengthy as all that," Senator Ellison said.
Another sticking point may centre around the issue of parole, which does not exist in the Indonesian prison system.
The Australian state and territory governments are also required to sign on.
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Re: Schapelle Corby [Re: veggie]
#4815061 - 10/17/05 05:04 AM (6 years, 7 months ago) |
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I find it interesting that sometime between January and February the amount of cannabis changed from 4.2 kilos to 4.1 kilos. That is a 100 gram difference that no one has seemed to explain or even point out. Where did it go?
My heart of hearts sincerely goes out to Schapelle Corby and her loved ones who are all victims of a worldwide war on drugs that has consistently proven to be more destructive than the substances it condemns. 
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Re: Schapelle Corby [Re: BaldCuban]
#4819577 - 10/18/05 03:36 AM (6 years, 7 months ago) |
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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16933914-421,00.html
Appeal deal may not bring back Corby
From: By Glenn Milne
October 16, 2005
DRUG smuggler Schapelle Corby may be jeopardising her chances of returning to Australia by continuing appeals against her 15-year sentence.
Federal Justice Minister Chris Ellison yesterday returned from Jakarta, confident Indonesia will sign a prisoner transfer agreement by the middle of next year.
Such an agreement would allow prisoners such as Corby to spend most of their sentences in Australia.
But even if the deal is signed ? and there is no guarantee it will be retrospective ? Corby will not be eligible so long as she pursues avenues of appeal through Indonesian courts. Her lawyers say they will continue right up to a plea for a presidential pardon, a process that could take up to two years.
The transfer deal is likely to be based on a similar agreement with Thailand, which lets prisoners return to Australia after serving either one third of their sentence or five years, whichever is less.
A similar arrangement with Indonesia would result in Corby spending at least four more years in jail in Denpasar, with the appeals process pushing her term out to at least six years, according to Australian Government sources.
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The prisoner transfer issue was discussed during a meeting on Friday between Mr Ellison, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and Indonesia's Law Minister Hamid Awaludin.
Mr Ellison said he was buoyed about the prospects of reaching an agreement.
"It's fair to say Mr Awaludin is very supportive," he said.
The chances of an arrangement have increased significantly because Indonesia believes the matter will not have to be passed by its notoriously slow and sometimes unco-operative parliament.
"They believe they can implement it without legislation," Mr Ellison said.
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Re: Schapelle Corby [Re: BaldCuban]
#4821396 - 10/18/05 03:06 PM (6 years, 7 months ago) |
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I find it interesting that sometime between January and February the amount of cannabis changed from 4.2 kilos to 4.1 kilos. That is a 100 gram difference that no one has seemed to explain or even point out. Where did it go?
Maybe it wasn't done drying out? 
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Re: Schapelle Corby [Re: veggie]
#4874386 - 10/31/05 08:19 AM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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Corby team finds new star witness
November 1, 2005 - theage.com.au
SCHAPELLE Corby's fight for freedom has gone upmarket. Now, sitting beside the gallery of rogues she wants to testify to her innocence is a knight of the realm: Sir John Wheeler, the British expert who exposed the terrible state of security at Australian airports.
Sir John emerged as a new player in the case yesterday as Corby's defence team unveiled the detail of its second appeal to the Indonesian Supreme Court, the third leg of her marathon run through the justice system.
Corby's lawyer, Erwin Siregar, said that as well as wanting long-sought testimony from several Australian criminals, the defence would ask Sir John to appear by video link to detail his findings.
"We will request Mr John Wheeler to be a witness so he can explain the conditions in the Australian airports," Mr Siregar told reporters at Denpasar District Court.
In Corby's first appeal, Bali's High Court reduced her sentence for marijuana smuggling from 20 years to 15. Mr Siregar said that if the system was "fair" Corby would be freed, but acknowledged that she may have to settle for a further reduction. If the Supreme Court downgraded her conviction from trafficking to possession, "this can be brought to four to six years".
The appeal contains the names of 17 possible witnesses, plus an unspecified number of Brisbane airport workers. The defence says it wants Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty to give evidence. He has previously indicated he won't.
Sir John is the most significant addition, and the defence also has submitted his entire report. In his review, released in September, Sir John slated airport policing as "often inadequate and dysfunctional" and security systems as "typically unco-ordinated".
The security issue goes to the heart of Corby's defence that the marijuana was planted in her bag as she travelled from Brisbane to Denpasar, with a stop in Sydney, in October 2004.
A decision on the appeal may not come until early next year.
Corby's prosecutors have appealed against the reduction in her sentence, and her defence now also has to lodge a separate response to that appeal.
Meanwhile, the parade of Australians through Bali's court system on drug charges continues.
Yesterday, accused heroin smuggler Martin Stephens lost his bid for charges to be dismissed, while his fellow accused, Scott Rush, listened as prosecutors responded to his bid to have the case thrown out.
The trial of another of the nine Australians in the heroin case, Michael Czugaj, will resume today, and model Michelle Leslie's trial for possession of two ecstasy tablets will sit for the second time.
An Adelaide man accused of drug possession in Indonesia also arrived in court yesterday to face charges that could result in him spending 20 years behind bars.
Former English teacher Graham Clifford Payne, 20, was arrested on August 20 after police allegedly found a bag full of thousands of methamphetamines in his pocket.
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Re: Schapelle Corby [Re: veggie]
#4880196 - 11/01/05 02:50 PM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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Corby prosecutors appeal against sentence cut
November 1, 2005 - abc.net.au
Prosecutors in the Schapelle Corby case have lodged an appeal against the reduction in her jail sentence.
Corby was arrested and charged after 4.1 kilograms of marijuana were found inside her bag when she arrived in Bali in October 2004.
The 28-year-old Gold Coast woman was found guilty at her trial and sentenced to 20 years in jail.
The Bali High Court cut the sentence to 15 years last month.
The prosecution has appealed against the cut, demanding a life sentence.
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Re: Schapelle Corby [Re: veggie]
#4929416 - 11/13/05 03:28 PM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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Schapelle's cell hell
November 13, 2005 - dailytelegraph.news.com.au
CONDITIONS in Schapelle Corby's jail cell have worsened, prompting her family to describe them as "disgusting".
There are now 13 prisoners in cell No. 7 at Bali's Kerobokan prison, including convicted drug smuggler Corby.
When she was first transferred from the stinking cell at Polda police station earlier this year, the cell had eight inmates and Corby said that number was hard to deal with, especially after the daily 4.30pm lockdown.
Within weeks, it was home to 11 prisoners and Corby said there was almost constant movement to and from the basic toilet attached to the cell.
"There are people coming and going all the time and it's in that area where I had my little stove set up, but I've stopped cooking for now, I'm over it," she said.
Corby's sister Mercedes said the number had risen to 13 – crammed into the cell measuring just 4m x 3m.
Corby's allotted space is just 920sq cm and Mercedes said when inmates tried to sleep on their mattresses, they were touching shoulder to shoulder.
"It's disgusting, but there seems to be little we can do about it, but people in Australia need to realise that conditions here are totally different to what you would find in Australian prisons," she said.
Her mum, Rosleigh Rose, said Corby did not dwell on the cell conditions too much.
"From little things that are said, you get the impression life is pretty tough in there," she said.
"Schapelle's cell is about the size of a child's bedroom in Australia, so imagine what it must be like with 13 in there – even allowing for the fact that all the others are Indonesian and are small in stature."
Corby was originally sentenced to 20 years in Kerobokan after being convicted of smuggling 4kg of cannabis into Bali, a sentence which was later reduced to 15 years on appeal.
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Re: Schapelle Corby [Re: veggie]
#4929731 - 11/13/05 05:33 PM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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That's so fucking terrible
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Re: Schapelle Corby [Re: Boom]
#4962843 - 11/21/05 01:30 AM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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So, what's the latest?
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Re: Schapelle Corby [Re: daba]
#4963714 - 11/21/05 10:38 AM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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> So, what's the latest?
The latest is that if you are a cute and popular model that is caught red-handed with MDMA, you get off for time served and if you are a cute and non-popular student that is framed, you get 15 years in a hell hole.
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Re: Schapelle Corby [Re: Seuss]
#4966572 - 11/21/05 10:50 PM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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>The latest is that if you are a cute and popular model that is caught red-handed with MDMA, you get off for time served and if you are a cute and non-popular student that is framed, you get 15 years in a hell hole.<
Yup, that's basically it in a nutshell. Ms. Corby will contnue to rot in jail, probably for years to come. And there is the money issue as well. Schapelle is poor, working class. Ms. Leslie is wealthy, from modeling, and her boyfriend has a $220 million Sydney car dealership, and had money to pay bribes, which I'm sure were paid.
Indonesias' legal system is corrupt. Overtly corrupt. It's business as usual, to pay bribes to get out of legal problems. I'm convinced if Schapelle had the money early on to pay the judges off, and there wasn't the media circus and constant attention surrounding her case, she would be home now.
I'm also convinced of her innocence. Here is a gal, non drug user, actually anti-drug, who just happened to have drugs planted in her luggage as part of a domestic (Australian) drug smuggling operation transferring marijuana from state to state using airline baggage handlers, which was not removed before her flight to Bali, which has happened before.
People just don't import drugs to Bali, they export drugs from Bali. Bali, apparently is just loaded with drugs. Many Australians go to Bali for their 'drug holidays' where drugs are plentiful, available in ample variety, easy to get, and very very cheap. Tourists there seem to be accosted by drug dealers as soon as they leave the airport offering just about anything. More recently many of the 'drug dealers' are working for the police who promptly swoop in and demand bribes on the spot to be let go or faced with jail where higher bribes to judges are required. But they do like their occasional 'trophy' cases of Westerners to show off in the media.
Schapelle still has another appeal she is working on for a reduced sentence or a pardon, while the prosecution is appealing for an even tougher sentence. And when that is all done, there is still the chance, if an agreement can be made, that she can be transferred home. But, hopefully not, we are talking about a process that will take perhaps years.
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Re: Schapelle Corby [Re: veggie]
#4980589 - 11/25/05 03:42 PM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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Corby camp hails Qantas drug arrests
November 26, 2005 - abc.net.au
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Qantas workers charged with drug supply
November 26, 2005
The three men were arrested last night following a month long investigation by the Joint Airport Investigation team, an Australian Federal Police (AFP) spokesman said.
"Police will allege that a small amount of drugs was being distributed at locations around the airport and at locations around Sydney," the spokesman said.
Two men, aged 23 and 33, will face Parramatta Local Court this morning charged with supplying a prohibited drug.
A 41-year-old man will appear at the Downing Centre Court on December 16.
Supporters of convicted Bali drug smuggler Schapelle Corby say the arrests of three Qantas employees on drug offences adds weight to Corby's claim that airport staff planted the marijuana in her baggage.
The Gold Coast woman is currently serving a 15-year sentence in a Bali jail, after being found with 4.1 kilograms of marijuana in her luggage at Denpasar airport.
Supporter Guy Pilgram says the arrests are further proof of illegal drug activity at Sydney Airport and cast doubt on Corby's guilt.
"Schapelle was locked up in October of last year and ever since then there's been more and more cases of drugs being transported within the Australian air system, and more and more failings within the system," he said.
Two Qantas employees will face a Sydney court today on the drugs charges.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) says the men were charged at the airport yesterday with supplying a prohibited substance.
A spokesman for the AFP says a joint airport investigation team had been monitoring the men since October.
A third man charged will appear in court next month.
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#4983154 - 11/26/05 12:03 PM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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interesting... baggage handler and ramp loader... one puts it in and the other takes it out... these scumbags could have used the girls luggage to transport their narcotics. hang them by their balls and let them rot... i hope this girl is set free.
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Re: Schapelle Corby [Re: veggie]
#5038473 - 12/09/05 08:20 AM (6 years, 5 months ago) |
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New twist in case...
Corby photos seized in raid
December 10, 2005 - news.com.au
POLICE have seized photographs of Schapelle Corby with a man who has just been charged with marijuana smuggling.
The alleged drug dealer is pictured alone with Corby in some photographs and with Corby and another couple in others.
They were found during a recent police search of the alleged dealer's home in South Australia.
He was the target of a joint SA-Queensland police operation into a hydroponic marijuana smuggling ring allegedly operating between the two states.
The photographs were taken before Corby was charged in October last year with importing 4.1kg of marijuana into Bali in her bodyboard bag.
They were found in a raid that police believe helped bust a marijuana-smuggling ring operating between SA and Queensland.
The man pictured with Corby was recently arrested and charged by SA's drug and organised crime investigation division.
A preliminary examination of the seized photographs has found they appear to be genuine.
The chance discovery of the photos comes as Corby, 28, is preparing to appeal against her drug-smuggling conviction and sentence.
Her lawyers last month lodged her appeal with Indonesia's Supreme Court in Jakarta.
They claim lower-court judges failed to consider evidence that would set Corby free.
But the Balinese prosecution team has said it plans to lodge a counter-appeal, claiming a recent Appeal Court decision to cut five years from the Gold Coast woman's sentence should be reversed and her 20-year jail term reinstated.
Balinese prosecutors are expected to seek access to the photographs seized by police in SA.
They will want them to try to cast doubt on claims by Corby in her trial that she had no connection with drugs or drug dealers.
The Balinese prosecution team is likely to request that police in Australia hand over the photographs and provide evidence about the alleged role in the drug-smuggling operation of the man pictured with Corby.
Corby's team argued somebody planted the marijuana in her bodyboard bag and said corrupt baggage handlers in Australia may have been responsible.
"I have never been involved with drugs," Corby told the Bali court during her trial.
"I don't like drugs. It's not my drugs. I wouldn't even know where to get the drugs from.
"I am not a person involved in drugs and I am not a person who might become involved in drug-smuggling operations."
The three Indonesian judges who jailed Corby for 20 years in May said she was legally and convincingly guilty of attempting to import drugs into Bali.
They said they believed the evidence of two Customs officers and two police officers who were present when Corby was stopped at Denpasar's Ngurah Rai airport on October 8 last year.
The judges said they gave consistent testimony that Corby was nervous when asked to open her unlocked bodyboard bag and actually slapped away an officer's hand as he reached for it.
Their evidence was that Corby said, "No, no – I have some", and that she confirmed she owned the items in the bag.
The judges said Corby's witnesses had failed to provide any objective evidence to back her story that the drugs were planted in her unlocked bag.
Members of SA's drug and organised crime investigation branch conducted the operation with Queensland Police that resulted in the Corby photographs being found.
They stopped a car near Burra, SA, in late November.
A search located a large amount of cannabis hidden in the boot.
An SA man in his 40s was arrested for possessing cannabis and has been bailed to appear in court at a date to be arranged.
Several residential and rural properties in SA and Queensland were later raided as a result of the November seizure.
Fifteen kilograms of hydroponically grown cannabis and almost $60,000 in cash were seized in the raids, as were the photos of Corby with the alleged drug smuggler.
A 60-year-old man and a 53-year-old man from SA will face charges of possessing cannabis and taking part in the sale and supply of cannabis.
Five men and two women were arrested in Queensland as part of Operation Co-Pilot.
A spokeswoman for SA police said that investigations into the alleged smuggling ring were continuing and that further arrests were expected.
Corby's father, Michael, was convicted of possessing marijuana in the 1970s.
Half-brother Clinton Rose has faced drug possession charges and spent time in jail for a range of offences, including breaking and entering, theft, fraud and unlawful use of a motor vehicle.
Michael Corby said in April that his daughter was opposed to drugs.
"She had nothing to do with bloody drugs," he said.
"She might have had a puff when she was in bloody Grade 10 or something, around the back of the schoolyard like kids do – I don't know.
"She's had nothing to do with it since, or any time as far as I know."
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Re: Schapelle Corby [Re: veggie]
#5038544 - 12/09/05 08:37 AM (6 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ohhhh shit
She guilty!!
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Re: Schapelle Corby [Re: Boom]
#5038684 - 12/09/05 09:05 AM (6 years, 5 months ago) |
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Wow..amazing twist to the story. Guilty or not, they're fucking dried flowers from a plant no matter how you look at it.
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Re: Schapelle Corby [Re: SuperD]
#5039573 - 12/09/05 12:43 PM (6 years, 5 months ago) |
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True..
You can rationalize almost anything, but she knew how harsh the law could be.
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Re: Schapelle Corby [Re: Boom]
#5039794 - 12/09/05 01:33 PM (6 years, 5 months ago) |
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damn at first i thought maybee she was innocent. not anymore though. she's gonna hang. shame though.
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Re: Schapelle Corby [Re: ZippoZ]
#5042805 - 12/10/05 01:20 AM (6 years, 5 months ago) |
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Amazing!
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