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Posted by - ® Mark (Admin) on May 28, 2005 at 3:50 pm:
In Reply to: I feel sick at the thought of "who next" if she is innocent posted by GabrielleE on May 27, 2005 at 3:51 pm:
When your baggage is taken off the plane, before it makes the conveyor belts, it is x-rayed for sure. I say this as I have been stopped a couple of times. Once when one friend asked me to bring some Maddon sea salt over for them (comes in circular cardboard containers), once when another friend asked me to bring a couple of brown silicone filler refills (comes, get the picture, in circular cardboard containers). Each time my cases were marked with a chalk "x".
Now, I am pretty sure that even the dumbest smugglers would know this. And I suspect Corby's bags were thus marked. I noticed the chalk marks both times and therefore knew that I was going to be stopped at the customs desk the second time, which I was.
I do not know whether she is guilty or not. I find it very hard to believe, given others have tainted her as a druggie family girl, that she would have been unaware of this procedure. If I were a drug smuggler (which, I am not), I would;
a) Get a visa in advance and use Lombok or Jakarta airports where drug security appears to be less (hmmm).
b) Let my bag go round the conveyor a couple of times so I can check it for little crosses. If none could be seen, then pick it up and inspect the part I could not see. If I saw a little chalk cross (actually they tend to put 2 or 3) say "Something is wrong with my bag, it seems awfully heavy".
She may be guilty but I do not buy all the problems with the case, I do not think justice has been done, and I am concerned that the judges comments that the defense lawyers had not proven Corby's innocence was a Freudian statement that the authorities had decided she was guilty before it went to trial.
As for the lawyers, pah! I have had dealings with them thank you. And I would happily give evidence against Lily Lubis and Anggia Lubis Browne for incompetence (as in not knowing fundamental criminal law) and working against their client's interests (they refused to fax me a document they claimed to have a copy of while they were supposedly working for me). The fact Corby turned down two heavyweight QC's shows either complete stupidity and / or a belief in a fair trial and that she was innocent.
Personally, I'd go with stupidity, but that does not make her guilty. And compromised evidence plus a seeming reversal of the "Innocent until proven guilty" rule makes me feel sick, truly.
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