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Convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby could know within days whether the Bali High Court will set her free on appeal. The appellant court could theoretically increase her 20-year sentence, but her lawyers expect her term in the island's Kerobokan Jail to be quashed or at least cut.
Lawyer Erwin Siregar said he was confident the 27-year-old would receive good news and he expected a decision to be announced as early as tomorrow. But he also promised to launch an appeal to Indonesia's peak Supreme Court in Jakarta if it failed."We expect a good result in the court, but we will have to wait and see," he said. Ms Corby will not make a court appearance as all appeal court decisions are written by judges, not announced in open court. The Gold Coast woman was arrested on October 8 last year after customs officers at Bali's Ngurah Rai Airport found 4.1 kg of marijuana in her unlocked luggage.
She maintains the drugs were not hers and must have been planted in her baggage by an Australian drug gang using her as an unwitting drug courier.
Her lawyers had hoped to organise a video link from Australia to allow unidentified witnesses to present new evidence about who really owned the drugs.But they were unable to convince Bali's High Court they could find fresh witnesses.
Senior judges said the decision was up to the lower court, where the videolink request has already been rejected. Ms Corby's lead lawyer Hotman Paris Hutapea last week said he hoped to present a new report into Australian airport security measures to appellate judges to help bolster the former Gold Coast student's claims.
Siregar said the High Court must rule on Ms Corby's case by Thursday at the latest, when a detention order currently keeping her in jail expired.
"If the court has not decided by then, then she must go free," he said.
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Source: The Daily Telegraph
Copyright: 2005 Nationwide News
Contact: news@dailytelegraph.com.au
Website: https://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,16726484-5001028,00.html
Author: Rob Taylor
Lawyer Erwin Siregar said he was confident the 27-year-old would receive good news and he expected a decision to be announced as early as tomorrow. But he also promised to launch an appeal to Indonesia's peak Supreme Court in Jakarta if it failed."We expect a good result in the court, but we will have to wait and see," he said. Ms Corby will not make a court appearance as all appeal court decisions are written by judges, not announced in open court. The Gold Coast woman was arrested on October 8 last year after customs officers at Bali's Ngurah Rai Airport found 4.1 kg of marijuana in her unlocked luggage.
She maintains the drugs were not hers and must have been planted in her baggage by an Australian drug gang using her as an unwitting drug courier.
Her lawyers had hoped to organise a video link from Australia to allow unidentified witnesses to present new evidence about who really owned the drugs.But they were unable to convince Bali's High Court they could find fresh witnesses.
Senior judges said the decision was up to the lower court, where the videolink request has already been rejected. Ms Corby's lead lawyer Hotman Paris Hutapea last week said he hoped to present a new report into Australian airport security measures to appellate judges to help bolster the former Gold Coast student's claims.
Siregar said the High Court must rule on Ms Corby's case by Thursday at the latest, when a detention order currently keeping her in jail expired.
"If the court has not decided by then, then she must go free," he said.
Newshawk: Freaktan - 420Times.com
Source: The Daily Telegraph
Copyright: 2005 Nationwide News
Contact: news@dailytelegraph.com.au
Website: https://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,16726484-5001028,00.html
Author: Rob Taylor
