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Too bad Oliver Stone wasn’t arrested in Bali. Meanwhile, Schapelle Corby’s legal team says she won’t seek a pardon:
The legal team said to do so would mean admitting to a crime she did not commit.
“The girl is not guilty,” said defence adviser Vasu Rasiah. “How can she ask for a pardon?”
Rasiah is an impressive fellow. TV footage this weekend showed him learning of prosecution plans to appeal for a longer sentence. His immediate reaction: “They can go to hell.” Which is the general response of Australians to Indonesian charity requests:
One of Australia’s largest charities, the Salvation Army, said on Sunday that public anger over convicted drug runner Schapelle Corby’s jailing in Bali was hampering its main annual fundraising drive, with many households demanding a guarantee their donations will not be used in Indonesia.
Sad and unfair, but understandable. The Herald Sun presents a photo timeline of Corby’s ordeal.
We have heard that Corby’s defence team failed to return calls from an SC in Australia who had volunteered his services along with several Australian legal experts in Indonesian law. The ‘impressive’ Rasiah and his colleagues failed to utilise the resources at their disposal.
Moreover, Vasu Rasiah and his colleagues have failed to present a credible defence. Hence Corby was convicted.
And if one wishes to complain about the lenghty sentence for supply of marijuana, one should remember that Western Governments, especially the US, placed pressure on countries like Indonesia in the 1960s and 1970s to increase penalties for drug smuggling.
Overall the Indonesian criminal justice system seems similar to those found in the west, in that if you can afford good lawyers (think Abu Bakr Bashir or O J Simpson), you stand a pretty good chance of walking.
Further I wonder if there’ll be a hue and cry when the Bali 9 face the courts. It is obviously a different matter, particularly if one considers the involvement of the Australian Federales in the investigation which led to the arrest of the Bali 9.
Australian Federal law prohibits liaison between the AFP and an external police force where an investigation may lead to the exercise of capital punishment in that country. However, the Attorney-General has discretion to permit AFP involvement in such matters. I haven’t heard from Ruddock about this yet. Do you think he might say something, acknowledging his role in this business, before these poor bastards face the firing squad?
Posted by Peter Hoysted on 2005 05 29 at 10:18 PM • permalinkhas anyone ever seen what 4.5 kilos of weed looks like??.......fairdinkum, it’s the size of a medium sized dog.
how could this idiotic girl not notice that great big bulge in her bag which wasn’t there when she left australia.
she’s dead set guilty…...just have a look at her feral family…..her mother’s a bogan who blames our johnnies for her daughter being in jail.
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I cant find the direct quote, but I’m sure I read this morning online, that S.C’s mother said that boycotts hurt the Balinese and had another suggestion. Maybe someone else can find it.