Schapelle Corby’s sentence may be reduced

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:50p.m.

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Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby's jail sentence may be drastically reduced.

Corby is serving a 20 year sentence for smuggling 4kg marijuana into Bali.

However, Indonesia's Supreme Court has sent a submission to the president suggesting her sentence be cut because of fears over her mental health.

Corby has spent six years behind bars and Australian Prime Minister is backing the clemency plea.

“I’m very concerned about her personal circumstances and I do support her plea for clemency,” she says.

Kathryn Bonella, the journalist who wrote Corby’s biography Hotel Kerobokan says she feels it is time Corby was released.

“She’s done more than enough time, I still believe she’s innocent so I think she certainly deserves to be released,” says

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14 Dec 2010 10:19p.m.

Mary Wheatley wrote:

I believe that Schapelle Corby is innocent of the crime of drug smuggling for which she has been judged guilty and sentenced to Prison in Indonesia, therefore I pray that Jehovah! the God of Justice, will vindicate Shapelle for His Names sake, and that she will be set free speedily and returned home,safe and sound in body, soul and Spirit, this I pray in the Name of Jesus, Schapelles' Saviour. Amen Amen

18 Aug 2010 02:44a.m.

courtney wrote:

She is obviously innocent! Watch the movie. The only thing that makes her seem guilty is that it was in her bag. But there are 10 or more things that prove innocence! It happened the SAME DAY out of the SAME PLACE with the SAME BAGGAGE WORKERS, but the other bag had cocaine, which made it further than Corby, but still was caught. Also, she opened the bag without being told to, if she knew it was in there, she wouldnt have voluntarily opened it! There were conveniently no cameras working that day?!?! Sounds fishy to me!... Also, whoever put it in there didn't even TRY to hide it under the boogie board or anything, it was right on top!..And finally they didn't fingerprint anything....WHY you ask!?!? Because they KNOW they wouldn't find her prints and would instead find one of the workers in the airports prints! I also have a slight feeling that there is something dirty going on over there and the government probably gets there cut from the profit of the drugs that run through..unforunately, the stuff didn't make it because Corby opened the bag. I can ALMOST be sure that if she wouldn't have opened the bag she would have made it fine beacause the drugs were probably going to be taken out by a baggage handler at her last stop! AND I also wanted to say, like it states on the documentary, why would she take the risk of going through not 1 but 2 airports!?!? SHE IS INNOCENT

11 Aug 2010 11:27a.m.

Linda Shaughnessy wrote:

About time somebody has started to do something for this girl. Having read the book and spent time living in Australia watching the media coverage I do believe that she is innocent. Hope the girl gets justice and is released from this hell hole, she should have been backed a lot more by the Australian people.

Linda, Ireland x x x x x x x x

04 Aug 2010 06:07p.m.

Mark wrote:

Innocent???

02 Aug 2010 10:27a.m.

Sullivan Brell wrote:

Tell me? was Schappelle Corby seen carrying the boogie board that day when she went to check out at Brisbane Airport, did her boogie board get loaded on a ULD export board or in a ULD export can or did her boogie board get loaded in the plane separately with other loose items, because, if the BGB, was loaded on a ULD board / can, then there would've been a manifest to show the weight & dimension of it, even if she carried it as loose freight, this still should've had a manifest with the weight & dimension..I believe she is innocent.