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PROSECUTORS handling the death-penalty case against accused Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Leigh Corby are investigating luggage handling procedures at Bali's airport.

The Brisbane woman has consistently claimed 4.1kg of Marijuana found in a vacuum-sealed bag in her luggage last month was planted at some time during or after her flight there.

[Zilos-note: The death penalty for pot! ]

Balinese prosecutors also want police to re-interview the 27-year-old about her initial reaction when her bag was opened during a search at the airport, revealing the drugs.

Prosecution requests for more information regarding the luggage processes employed at Bali's Ngurah Rai international airport appear to be a bid to negate expected defence arguments that the high-grade Marijuana was planted.

Ms Corby has been in custody since her arrest on October 8 at the airport after arriving on a flight from Brisbane via Sydney to the capital Denpasar.

[Zilos-note: She must be in ruff shape, knowing she may soon face the death penalty for a little pot, well, alot of pot. Even if it was 100Kilos of pot, she shouldn't face the death penalty. People murder and get off without the death penalty!!!! What has happened to this 'Free' country?]

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Any country that puts a person to death for put pot should have maximum sanctions placed on them

freethemind

The death penalty what the hell is this world comming to get real you can kill someone by DWI and go home in a few days you may lose your Lic. to drive
and spend a few years in jail but you will not be put to death for it.
Come people get your head out of the sand and stand up for your
selff and do something the laws must be changed.
Burn it like you eraned it
Free the Mind

Plainsman1963

Corby agrees to tests on drugs
12-03-04 | Herald Sun

GOLD Coast beauty student today gave her consent from her Bali jail cell for the Australian Federal Police to conduct tests to determine the origin of cannabis found in her luggage at Bali airport.

Schapelle Leigh Corby, 27, of Tugun, faces the death penalty under Indonesia's tough anti-drugs laws.
Her lawyer said the move should not adversely affect her case whatever the findings of the tests.

Indonesian customs officers say they found a plastic zip-lock bag containing 4.2 kilograms of cannabis leaf and heads in her bodyboard bag when she arrived in Bali in October.

She has maintained her innocence, saying somebody must have planted the stash in her luggage between Brisbane and Denpasar airports.

Calling the case very curious, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer offered AFP help to test the cannabis to determine if it came from Australia or overseas - something that required Corby's consent.

Corby met with Australian Consul-General Brent Hall at Kerobokan prison today and told him that she wants the test to be done as soon as possible, Vasudeva Rasiah, a member of her legal team, told AAP.

"Time is very short. We have been made to understand from Canberra that they will move very fast," he said.

Rasiah disputed suggestions the test could be detrimental to Corby's case, which is expected to go to court as early as next month.

"Schapelle has nothing to hide. She wants to know exactly how this has happened to her," he said.

"Even without the tests being done, the Indonesian police are already concluding it has come from Australia. So by doing the test, even if they say it's from Australia, we haven't lost anything.

"But if we can find out exactly where it came from, the Australian government can look into how drugs are moving around the country."

He said Corby was coping as best she could in prison and taking heart from the Australian government's assistance.

"She feels a little better these days because she knows the country has not given up on her," Rasiah said.

Her legal team visited Australia last month in a bid to obtain evidence to verify her claim that the cannabis had been planted.

However, they were unable to get records from Sydney or Brisbane airports of screening X-rays taken of Corby's bag, or information from Qantas to show the weight of the luggage when it was checked in at Brisbane.

Indonesian police have said the stash was the largest quantity of cannabis ever brought into Bali, and the first such case involving an Australian.

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