Stuart Naylor
From what I understand the system in Indo is that both parties, defence and prosecution, need to establish their case such that it has more weight than the other, in order to prove innocence or guilt.
In other words, the person charged is not buttumed innocent nor guilty, but this status relies on the judgement of evidence presented by both sides.
Now, given that there was ample evidence to show that there was substantial doubt as to Corby's guilt, which was ultimately dismissed in court today, simply shows how corrupt their system is. f*** them with a bloodied tampon, I say.
Who is to know if SHE willingly was carrying drugs ? No one except those who put the drugs there. She did not see her bag since it left Brissie, until her brother carried it at Denpasar. Now *that* was the crucial point, and that was what was dismissed as irrelevent. Sniff Sniff I smell an arrogant bunch of "we dont let no stinken druggies go free in our country, westerner scum." needles.
If they had done their job of upholding the law and taken ALL evidence into account, and done a proper investigation then the mitigating evidence would have, in any civilised country, ended up with at least "reasonable" doubt in her favour, given so many anomalies surrounding the treatment of the evidence alone.
Her father said he packed her bag. Her brother carried it from Denpasar airport to the area where they were asked it be opened. She denies any admission of owning the "plastic bags, which is true contained sugar.".
The half english statement of her saying "No, I have some." when asked to open her bag, also really irked me today. It's like a posh Brit going to Bali and saying "Oh I say, that chap just called me a feindish cad. I say!" when abused by a local. Complete bullpoo.
She has had no prior criminal conviction for any narcotics and it's absurd that she would consider making a few bucks from taking expensive pot from Australia to a place where dada is as common as persons.
They dismissed any statements from people of authority stating that the price of pot in Bali is less than that of Australia, which would render the whole damn notion of smuggling pot INTO Bali, laughable.
They dismissed crucial evidence that there was-is an organised drug syndicate actively using peoples baggage in local airports as means of transporting drugs interstate within Australia , as irrelevent because it did not succinctly apply to *this* case. (Blindness in law, is often the trait of the criminal)
They did not treat the evidence as such that it could be shown to have been explicitely packed by Corby, indeed they all had a go at it. As far as we know, the coppers (5 of them) at the airport took a few handfulls and plied their own with a few sticks to line their pockets.
"No sir, she said it was her. She guilty, she say so." (hee hee, I got 1,00,250 rupiah when get home.)
No official recorded evidence was taken at the time, no external testing to determine the location where it may have been grown was allowed, and no substantial care was taken whatsoever at all. Some UV light and a sniffer dog was it. A joke.
Nothing in this case was reasonable nor adequate to determine guilt worthy of 20 years and a $11,000 fine-6 additional months. Nothing. She should have been set free due to reasonable doubt, and sent back home.
Do we blame Indo for the crime ? No. Do we blame them for bollocking up justice ? f***ing oath.
500 drug charges before him, and not one ever was innocent. Sounds like a f***ing barbarian with an axe, dissolutioning peons for tax evasion.
