Schapelle Corby
June 28th, 2008 at 7:46 pm by David FarrarI’ve never had much doubt that Schapelle Corby was guilty and indeed her lawyer has admitted the defence that the baggage handlers must have placed the drugs in the bag was fabricated. Yet so many people fell for it because she is attractive.\
Her entire family seem to be in the drigs trade with her father and two brothers all having convictions.
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June 28th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Jeremy – it’s not the Indonesian laws DPF is commenting on, it’s the attitude back home. If she were ugly she would never have made the ausie papers.
Vote:June 28th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
about the same time corby got busted, so did some old aussie stoner guy.. no one gave a shit about him!
talkin to some qantas pilots, there was a few things that never made the papers and to be honest i can hardly remember what they were heh but she was as guilty as sin.
she was searched because she was displaying the tell tale signs of someone with something to hide.
it is sad though. dime doesnt like shit countries/ places.. bali included.
Vote:June 28th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
The “secret” video of the lawyer schooling her up on her lines “Help me Australia, help me”, then her delivering the lines on cue the next day was pretty telling. Lock ‘er up and throw away t’ key!
Vote:June 28th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Inventory2 et al… there’s a lot of reasons Schapelle’s case wouldn’t meet the “beyond reasonable doubt” test but the most obvious is the sheer stupidity of anyone stuffing a few kilos of marijuana into a boogie board bag so the thing bulged like it had a beachball in it. Hollowing out the board and stuffing the hash in it would have occurred to even the most stupid druggie, let alone better methods of concealment.
Then there’s the fact that the Indonesian police didn’t fingerprint the plastic packaging the drugs were in, and even went so far as to refuse a formal Australian government request that they do so.
While public sympathy was initially behind her because she was attractive, it’s now swung the other way because the rest of her family are so unattractive in terms of both personality and looks, and with little or no regard to the facts. The fact that her lawyer, Tampoe, has admitted he made up a lie doesn’t alter her guilt or innocence – he’s just another in the unsavoury cast of characters that surround her.
And the bottom line is that even if she did try to bring a bagful of marijuana into Indonesia, she doesn’t deserve the harshness of the punishment. Playing to the media to garner support in Australia is an understandable technique… I’d do it if I was looking at growing old in some filthy Balinese jail for the next 20 years and I guarantee you would too.
Vote:June 29th, 2008 at 12:17 am
Some good points Rex but you missed one obvious one. Not all crims are smart. Most are thick as pig shit. Watch that Border Control program on TV to see the pathetic way people try to smuggle all sorts of contraband. She deserves whatever the Indonesians gave her. The penalties are pretty clearly stated for the offence of drug trafficking.
Vote:June 29th, 2008 at 1:28 am
I’ve got to say I’ve no love for Islamic states like Indonesia but in this case they’ve got it right… we need to crack down on drug smugglers, drug users and not show them any leniency even if they do have a big chest.
Vote:June 29th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Im sorry but someone who fills a bodyboard bag with drugs that are not only bulky but weigh significantly more than what the board weighs into a country that everyone knows has extremely harsh penalties deserves the punishment handed down. Indo’s law states the punishment pretty clearly, you take the risk and lose you do the time.
Vote:June 29th, 2008 at 10:22 am
The whole family were up to their necks in this scam and this was a regular run into Bali, not a lot of weed in Bali because it’s not the locals drug of choice, but on this occasion the immigration official they tried to pay off was not having any of it.
Vote:June 29th, 2008 at 11:22 am
I still dont understand why anybody would take drugs from a country with a high market price for drugs to a country with a low market price, and death penalties to boot.
Vote:June 29th, 2008 at 11:23 am
There is one thing I have always had difficulty in understanding in this case assuming the drugs were planted. If that was correct why didn’t she notice the weight and the bulge the moment she picked up the board? Why didn’t she immediately open it to see what it was and take the parcel to the authorities. There is a sign up in the baggage pick up area warning the death penalty is in operation for drug smuggling.
Vote:June 29th, 2008 at 11:39 am
I’m with Ben.
Vote:June 29th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Perhaps if I had seen the doco I wouldn’t still retain my doubts as to her guilt. As I recall it she was about 27 and had not been convicted of any criminal offence in Australia. The fact that the rest of her family were criminals and druggies may be good reason to suspect that she also was, but it is not necessarily so. As Jeremy says sometimes a Criminal Family will treat an attractive sibling like a precious goddess and endeavour to ensure she doesn’t travel down the same path that they did, some do some don’t….As for lawyer’s fabricating a defence,not unusual…..Apart from that I would approve of the harsh treatment.
Vote:June 29th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
JeremyR
It is representatives from the ‘shitty’ countries who make up the bulk of the UN Human Rights and the UN itself for that matter. Therefore there will not be change any time soon.
Remember too that ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ is not a legal concept in most of Europe and countries like Indonesia which owe their legal heritages to continental European countries and their ‘inquisitorial’ criminal trials.
It is one thing to’push’ the laws in your own country and another to do so in foreign countries. Especially when they have shitty prisons, whippings and the gallows.
Vote:June 30th, 2008 at 10:07 am
DOn’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.
An age old call to sense that she of the fair face should have heeded.
Another!!
When in Rome live like a Roman
We expect people who come to NZ to abide by our laws, and ignorance of them is not a valid defence. If theya re convicted in our courts, we expect them to do the time then go away. It is perfectly reasonable for the Indonesians to expect the same. Personaly, I find the French approach to justice beyond belief, but it’s their country and so their rules apply. The many American court soap dramas on TV show that the law in the USA can be , to quote an Englishman, “an ass”, but it is the law, and when there youare governed by it. SO hey ho. Corby got caught doing something wrong; went through a full trial as was unable to convince the court that she didn’t do it, went through all available appeals and was unable to get the conviction quashed or the sentence reduced. SHe did it all in the glare of ‘foreign’ (to Indonesia) media, who happily put pictures of her fair form and face in their publications because (as the Diana P continuing media frenzy proved) beautiful women on the front page sell publications.
Now the story is over. It’s time for her to do the time, and tghe media to move on to equally fair maidens (or matrons if the ‘old’ meaning is to be preserved)!
Vote:June 30th, 2008 at 10:16 am
You think she’s pretty?
I guess it’s a subjective thing but I never thought she was a looker. Just take a gander at her mother and her sister, neither of them have a pretty gene in their body and I think Schapelle is one of those people who might look good, but only under certain lighting (or lack thereof).
But then again, I’ve never been accused of being handsome so what would I know?
Vote:June 30th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Why would anyone smuggle dope out of Australia and into Indonesia?
Surely the only way you’d ever make any money would be to take it the other way???!?
Vote:March 22nd, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Read her book, “My Story.” Study the details and nuances of the case. Look at the emotion and conviction behind it.
Vote:An innocent woman’s life is ruined, plain and simple.
Sure, I agree, it often happens to minorities and gets no press for it. But that doesn’t make Schapelle’s story any less tragic, any less unjust. So what if she’s pretty, or not. So what if she’s white. An innocent women is condemned for a crime she did not commit. Maybe we just don’t like to stomach that.