The Schapelle Corby Story

[miss duece]

we had this discussion today in class about corby. if this evidence was presented in the US the majority of the student body (with exception of 2 ppl) in this class size of 132 students thinks she will be found guilty based on the fact that the evidence overwhelmingly points the finger at her despite some discrepancies. the fact was, she had weed in her bag and her defense was that she got caught up in some drug smuggling conspiracy back in her homeland. the fact that she got caught outside the her native country and the fact that her defense fail to prove such existence of tampering with her bag is bad luck on her part. ppl get sentenced to death in the US (which claims to have the fairest justice system) without so much as a muder weapon at times (especially here in tx), let alone this woman has a whole bag of weed. its not up to the prosecution in any country to prove someone's innocence. to most outsiders she just got caught red handed and lots of people, especially in the surrounding asian countries don't know what the big deal is. the taiwanese national cable that i get at home even suggested that austrialians were making a big deal out of this because she's white while austrialia has some 80 something other citizens in jail in other asian countries on similiar charges but most of them were asian. i don't know if she's innocent or not but if she's really guilty i think it was a pretty tough sentence considering the conditions. then again 9 lbs will get you about the same sentence here if not more, but the conditions here are waaaay better.


another question that came up during the class discussion was the role of the austrailian govt. why were there no formal investigations into her defense claims of baggage handlers and corruption? instead the govt downplayed the situation of security risks at airports and ask ppl not to panic. well, to alot of the students it seemed that not going to one place because they might prosecute you seems pretty dumb if the problem was at the airports in the country itself, it wouldn't matter where you go, you'll still get into trouble if you got framed even though the punishment might not be as harsh. it seems that most austrailians blame the indonesians for their legal systems 'failure' and fail to look at the supposed orginal source of the problem. its pretty hard for the rest of the world to feel anything more than pity.