[MatrixMetaphore]

Whether she had anything to do with this I don't know. My problem with this case is the lact of effort on the Australian Government's part. This young woman was arrested and faces death for a conviction that, if here in the states, would have a substantial prison sentence. Execution is not warranted in my opinion, and I fail to understand why her government is barely helping.

[Huntress]

I tend to agree, but I'm not buying her story that she didn't know how the drugs got into her luggage. How the heck can you NOT notice that much pot?

[robertpaulsen]

"Is this the face of a drug criminal?" the judge asked Professor Wilson, instructing Ms Corby to stand up."

Who better to smuggle drugs?

Yes, yes, yes, she could be innocent. But if it were that easy to plant drugs in other's suitcases and checked items, then why doesn't it happen more often?

Why doesn't her attorney stand up and say, "Your honor, this represents the 57th time this month that something like this happened. My client is as innocent as all the rest!".

From another article:

"Prosecutors claim Corby admitted owning the marijuana and refused to open the bag when Indonesian customs officers at an X-ray machine identified a suspicious package inside."

"Corby has accused the customs officers of lying. She said she never admitted owning the marijuana - only the boogie-board bag it was in - and she had voluntarily opened the boogie-board bag to pass the customs inspection on her way out of the airport."

"She was shocked to see and smell the package of marijuana inside, she said."

"However, two anti-drugs squad officers, who were the first police officers on the scene, supported previous testimony from customs representatives that Corby had tried to stop them opening the bag."

"The hand of (customs officer) Gusti Winata was stopped and pressed by Corby when he started to open the bag," police officer I Gusti Ngurah Bagus Astawa told the three-judge panel on Friday."

"She said, 'No! No! I have something'."

Defence lawyer Erwin Siregar asked the court to check airport security cameras from that day to prove the officers were lying."

"Chief judge Gde Damendra promised to take up the issue at the next hearing on February 17, when another customs officer would be called to give evidence. "If there was a camera we can look at it together," Mr Damendra said."

Reminds me of the movie Brokedown Palace.

[TKDietz]

Four kilos of marijuana is probably not worth much in Bali. You wouldn't get very far down the street there without street peddlers hounding you trying to sell you cheap pot or hash or underaged girls. For some reason people there don't seem to be too concerned that selling drugs is a capitol offense.