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Schapelle Corby is the young Australian lady who has been detained in an Indonesian jail for the last 20 or so weeks, having been charged by Indonesian authorities with the importation of cannabis to Indonesia. 
It is alleged that Schapelle attempted to "smuggle" a very very very (ludicrously) large bag of cannabis into Indonesia in her "Boogie Board" bag.
Schapelle is either guilty as charged... or she is the most unfortunate and unwitting victim of the drugs being "planted" in her luggage by person's unknown AFTER Schapelle said "au revoir" to her luggage at the airline check-in counter.
Leaving aside our opinions on whether we may think that Schapelle is innocent or guilty. let us for a moment look at what any reasonable person would need to see established as evidence in order for a guilty finding to be made.
The fact that the cannabis was in her luggage does not in my view prove ANYTHING other than the drugs were in her boogie board bag. The presence of the drugs in the bag DO NOT prove that they were Schapelles drugs or that she put the drugs in her bag. In order to establish guilt, there would need to be (in my view) incontravertable evidence that she purchased or otherwise obtained the drugs in Australia prior to her departure. Unless there is rock solid evidence linking Schapelle to the drugs prior to her bags being checked at the airport then Schapelle IS INNOCENT.
In my view, if there is ANY possibility that the drugs could have been placed into her luggage AFTER she checked her bags at the airline counter, then the doctrine of "reasonable doubt" and "innocent until proven guilty" must apply. Now, what are the chances that Schapelle's luggage could have been "accessed" between the airline counter at her port of departure and picking her luggage up from the luggage rotunda at her port of arrival. Has Schapelle's legal defence team brought in an AIRLINE PROCESS EXPERT to describe all the handling of Schapelle's luggage that occurred between departure and arrival? I am no airport luggage handling expert but I can imagine that there would be many, many opportunities for numerous individuals to slip a package (for whatever reason) into ANYONE's luggage - including Schapelle's, yours, mine or my kids!
I had a very scary experience myself some years ago when I left Dubai to go to London by air. When I arrived in london and unpacked my suitcase, three of my almost full bottles of cologne had been replaced with half empty bottles of WATER! (My first hint that something was wrong was when I saw that the lock on my hard-shell Sampsonite bag had been broken!) So, based upon my own experience and the balance of probabilities, there is every possibility that Schapelle's luggage had been accessed and the drugs planted (possibly as is being claimed for the purpose of intra-Australia travel).
So, what does this mean for us - well, if Schapelle is innocent and the drugs were "planted", then every Australian travelling to Indonesia is at risk of a similar fate - mean having drugs planted in your luggage.
And further, if the Indonesian authorities find Scapelle guilty purely on the evidence that the drugs were in her bag, I say that is a travesty of justice and an absolute deadly THREAT to every Australian who travels to Indonesia. It is a threat because the Indonesian authorities are saying, in effect, that if you come to our country, you will lose your right to justice as we in Australia know it - why on Earth would ANYONE ever want to go to another country on that basis... below is a short extract from the Sixty Minutes Television documentary on Schapelle Corby...
LIZ HAYES: Under Bali drug laws, possession is everything. The bag was Schapelle's, the drugs were Schapelle's unless she can prove that somebody else put them there. So now it is up to her legal team to try and establish her innocence because, as far as the Bali authorities are concerned, the case is closed. She's guilty.
Transcript: The accused November 14, 2004 Reporter: Liz Hayes
Producer: Katheryn Bonella, Nick Greenaway
Here is an article from the Melbourne Age titled "New Evidence May Clear Schapelle Corby"
