Australian woman faces Bali drug charge
Oh; boo hoo
DENPASAR, Indonesia (Reuters) - An Australian woman accused of smuggling marijuana into the Indonesian resort island of Bali has gone on trial on a drug charge that could bring the death penalty.
Wait a minute; trafficing drugs from Australia TO Indonesia? If this woman is guilty of anything it must be stupidity. Dope is cheap as in Indo.
As her family watched from the gallery, Schapelle Leigh Corby, 27, heard a judge read the charge of importing illegal drugs, an offence that under tough Indonesian anti-drug laws carries a 20-year prison term or death by firing squad.
Corby has denied the allegations and her lawyers have said they are investigating the possibility that the marijuana was planted in her luggage.
The "it was planted by the cops" probably wouldn't convince an indonesian judge, the cops would have planted 1/2 a kilo to get a conviction or 100 gms to exact a bribe then sold the rest. They're not daft and the judges know it; 20% cut says so.
Indonesian officials said customs officers found the marijuana in Corby's bodyboard bag during a routine X-ray search when she arrived on a flight from Brisbane via Sydney.
"On Friday 8th of October 2004 at the international airport in Bali, you broke Indonesian law by importing grade 1 narcotics, in this case marijuana. The weight was 4.2 kilograms," Judge Linton Sirait said in court.
I figured maybe a couple of spliffs floating in the bottom of her bodyboard bag, but 4.2 Kilos is a lot of smoke for a weekend puff. Can't really imagine the "ooh, forgot that was in there" line would carry much weight.
Lokks like she's either daft as a brush or Oregano is dirt cheap in Australia...
Bomber out
