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^^ It's amazing the inconsequential things that will obsess the Australian media - we're very parochial and inward looking, we get distracted easily by shiny things.
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Schapelle Corby will celebrate freedom 'with a joint', says former lawyer Kerry Smith
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This was an hilarious way to begin my day. I certainly 'woke up with today' that morning, having aspirated on my bowl of cereal 
fun times. It is good to see eccentric people out there, it adds colour to an otherwise black and white world.
To add something a little more serious to my rant - I do think 20 years is excessive and am pleased it looks as if she will be released soon. Nine years is certainly, in my opinion, sufficient. In my circle of friends and family I've always agreed with them that Schapelle was innocent, however it's always been in the back of my mind she was quite obviously guilty. That sister of hers is just unbearable - sorry I'm getting side tracked. Anyway, I'm pleased for her family (who I can't stand) as I'm sure it's been nine years of hell for them, it will be good to see this all over and if I don't hear her name again I will be ever so greatful.
Is there anyone else who it is somewhat curious, almost as if there is a counterplot that channel nine have the a mini series commencing at the same time. The production has been publicised heavily for about 3 weeks leading up to this, before any announcement was made in Indonesia... mystifying.
fun times. It is good to see eccentric people out there, it adds colour to an otherwise black and white world. To add something a little more serious to my rant - I do think 20 years is excessive and am pleased it looks as if she will be released soon. Nine years is certainly, in my opinion, sufficient. In my circle of friends and family I've always agreed with them that Schapelle was innocent, however it's always been in the back of my mind she was quite obviously guilty. That sister of hers is just unbearable - sorry I'm getting side tracked. Anyway, I'm pleased for her family (who I can't stand) as I'm sure it's been nine years of hell for them, it will be good to see this all over and if I don't hear her name again I will be ever so greatful.
Is there anyone else who it is somewhat curious, almost as if there is a counterplot that channel nine have the a mini series commencing at the same time. The production has been publicised heavily for about 3 weeks leading up to this, before any announcement was made in Indonesia... mystifying.
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This was an hilarious way to begin my day. I certainly 'woke up with today' that morning, having aspirated on my bowl of cereal
To add something a little more serious to my rant - I do think 20 years is excessive and am pleased it looks as if she will be released soon. Nine years is certainly, in my opinion, sufficient. In my circle of friends and family I've always agreed with them that Schapelle was innocent, however it's always been in the back of my mind she was quite obviously guilty. That sister of hers is just unbearable - sorry I'm getting side tracked. Anyway, I'm pleased for her family (who I can't stand) as I'm sure it's been nine years of hell for them, it will be good to see this all over and if I don't hear her name again I will be ever so greatful.
Is there anyone else who it is somewhat curious, almost as if there is a counterplot that channel nine have the a mini series commencing at the same time. The production has been publicised heavily for about 3 weeks leading up to this, before any announcement was made in Indonesia... mystifying.
Excellent! :D
Thoroughly enjoyed that strange meander along your train of thought, thanks for including us on your journey
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Getting pretty sick of this media circus - the Indonesian minister has made an announcement but no-one on ABC News 24 knows WTF he was saying, lol. - EDIT: yup, she got parloe, media release transcripts have been released.
They were talking about this today on the ABC. There was a big drug scene among the Indonesian elite (remember Michelle Leslie, she was partying with the kids of high ranking Indonesian politicians) and there had been numerous arrests of foreigners bringing things like hash and cocaine into Bali in the years leading up to Corby's case. There clearly was a market for up-scale drugs, whether Corby was guilty of being involved in that, I guess time will tell.
They were talking about this today on the ABC. There was a big drug scene among the Indonesian elite (remember Michelle Leslie, she was partying with the kids of high ranking Indonesian politicians) and there had been numerous arrests of foreigners bringing things like hash and cocaine into Bali in the years leading up to Corby's case. There clearly was a market for up-scale drugs, whether Corby was guilty of being involved in that, I guess time will tell.
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Ah, ABC News 24 - the gift that never stops giving. Well worth the $0.08 a day :D
What's the "you are now in immediate danger, act now to protect yourself?" LOL
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It's the emergency warning for fires burning in Victoria - they run a double ticker that regularly results in this kind of hilarity. It's one of the joys of having a publicly-funded 24 hour news channel running on an absolute bare-bones budget
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Edit - nup, it's less than 8 cents now;
(Is it still 8 cents a day? Surely not! People have said "8c a day" for fucking yonks!)
Edit - nup, it's less than 8 cents now;
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Not extraordinary, really. Only because the bizarre laws defined it as such, but she hasn't done much, honestly. She carried some flowers with her.
No victims from cannabis.
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Debate rages was Corby innocent?
GUN-TOTING diamond-wearing lawyer Hotman Paris Hutapea. Flamboyant Gold Coast mobile phone entrepreneur Ron Bakir. A convicted Australian criminal taking the stand in her defence. Legal teams sacked.
For nine years - since the day, on October 8, 2004, when a young woman called Schapelle Leigh Corby, was arrested at Nguarh Rai airport with 4.1kg of marijuana in her boogie board bag - her case has attracted an array of bizarre and colourful individuals.
It has never been out of the news and now, with her freedom on parole imminent, it continues to fascinate and provoke intense debate. Did she do it, or is she innocent? Who owned the marijuana that was in her bag? How did it get there?
These are the questions that people have been asking for the best part of a decade.
The array of bizarre characters who attached themselves to the Corby saga from day one have turned it into a soap opera.
IN PICTURES SCHAPELLE CORBY'S LIFE IN JAIL
Corby was 27-years-old when she got off a plane in Bali, having flown from Brisbane, via Sydney, with two girlfriends and her brother.
They were planning a great holiday, with Corby taking a break from caring for her terminally-ill father on the Gold Coast, planning to celebrate her older sister Mercedes' 30th birthday while they were there.
But they barely had time to grab their luggage from the carousels when a Customs officer was hot on their trail, asking to inspect the contents of a boogie board bag belonging to Corby.
Corby, the friends who were there when it was packed and her family, have always insisted the only thing she put inside was her beloved boogie board and flippers.
At Bali airport, a pillowcase sized vacuum sealed bag stuffed full of high-quality marijuana was nestled alongside the boogie board.
From that day until now Corby has insisted the marijuana was not hers and that she was as shocked as anyone else to see it there.
She doesn't know how it got there but her defence has always pointed the finger at corrupt baggage handlers, using unwitting passengers luggage to ferry drugs through airports. And as colourful as this claim is it's not without foundation.
In May, 2005, baggage handlers at Sydney Airport were arrested and accused of being paid $300,000 to help smuggle a briefcase of almost 10kg of cocaine.
And the date of that was October 8, 2004 - the same day that Corby and her luggage were transiting from Brisbane, through Sydney airport to Bali. Corby's legal team said this added weight to the theory.
The problem has always been that Corby's boogie board bag was not individually weighed and recorded when she checked in at Brisbane airport, so there was no way of knowing what it weighed as it left the country.
It was always an uphill battle for the legal team - how to show that Corby had no knowledge of the drugs in her bag.
The lawyers representing her - Lily Lubis and Erwin Siregar - passionately believed that she was an innocent woman. But that was never going to be enough.
Enter the Australian connection. As Corby's trial progressed through Denpasar District Court, an unlikely "white knight" came to her defence.
Flamboyant mobile phone entrepreneur Ron Bakir, convinced of her innocence, flew to Bali and agreed to help her defence.
With him was his old mate, Gold Coast lawyer Robyn Tampoe. The duo became her supposed saviours, took on the role of agents and PR, and with them Corby was convinced that she would be acquitted.
Those close to the case say that she truly believed that on July 27, 2005, the day of her verdict, that the three judges would find her not guilty and let her go home.
They didn't and sentenced her to 20 years in jail.
Tampoe and Bakir had even organised for an Australian man, John Ford, on remand in a Victorian prison, to be flown over to give evidence about overhearing a conversation between two other prisoners,
who suggested the marijuana was planted in the bag mistakenly and that the owner had lost drugs between Brisbane and Sydney.
He named the drug owner but refused to say who put them there, saying he feared for his life.
Things did not end well. The Corby family severed ties with Bakir and Tampoe and Tampoe has since been struck from the legal roll for misconduct for breaching client confidentiality for remarks he made about the Corby family.
And as if the hysteria hadn't already reached fever pitch, then along came another self-promoting high-profile character to add to the cast - Jakarta celebrity lawyer Hotman Paris Hutapea.
The hope was that Hotman was well-connected in Jakarta, knew the ropes and could help Corby.
He travelled in a bulletproof Hummer, and was well-known for sporting a gun on his ankle and expensive diamond jewellery.
He had the bling and enough connections to have the case reopened by the High Court for the purpose of hearing from a tranch of new witnesses.
In the end, the witnesses were airport staff who said little more than the fact there was nothing suspicious about Corby or her luggage when she checked in.
Initially sentenced to 20 years, this was reduced, on appeal, to 15 years. But on further appeal, to the Supreme Court, it was reinstated back to 20 years.
For Corby it was a devastating blow. The best years of her life destined to be spent in jail, where conditions were awful to say the least. It would almost crush her.
In the overcrowded women's block of Bali's main prison, at Kerobokan, as she struggled to get through each day, she was descending into the black hole of mental illness.
She was paranoid, delusional, thought people had drilled holes in the roof of her cell and were spying on her, that everyone had a camera.
It got worse and worse and eventually she was curled up in a foetal position. Her sister Mercedes had to feed her. Twice she was taken to hospital for psychiatric treatment. At its worst she was diagnosed as suffering "severe psychosis".
Different psychiatric medications were tried but they would only help if they were given in the right doses and that was a problem given that she was in jail.
Another prisoner was tasked with being the guardian of Corby's medication and its administration. The medicine was sold to other prisoners on the black market and Corby went off the rails.
It was only later that the proper dosages were worked out and she has managed to become more stable.
Cont -
http://www.news.com.au/national/sch...n-for-nine-years/story-fncynjr2-1226821069776
GUN-TOTING diamond-wearing lawyer Hotman Paris Hutapea. Flamboyant Gold Coast mobile phone entrepreneur Ron Bakir. A convicted Australian criminal taking the stand in her defence. Legal teams sacked.
For nine years - since the day, on October 8, 2004, when a young woman called Schapelle Leigh Corby, was arrested at Nguarh Rai airport with 4.1kg of marijuana in her boogie board bag - her case has attracted an array of bizarre and colourful individuals.
It has never been out of the news and now, with her freedom on parole imminent, it continues to fascinate and provoke intense debate. Did she do it, or is she innocent? Who owned the marijuana that was in her bag? How did it get there?
These are the questions that people have been asking for the best part of a decade.
The array of bizarre characters who attached themselves to the Corby saga from day one have turned it into a soap opera.
IN PICTURES SCHAPELLE CORBY'S LIFE IN JAIL
Corby was 27-years-old when she got off a plane in Bali, having flown from Brisbane, via Sydney, with two girlfriends and her brother.
They were planning a great holiday, with Corby taking a break from caring for her terminally-ill father on the Gold Coast, planning to celebrate her older sister Mercedes' 30th birthday while they were there.
But they barely had time to grab their luggage from the carousels when a Customs officer was hot on their trail, asking to inspect the contents of a boogie board bag belonging to Corby.
Corby, the friends who were there when it was packed and her family, have always insisted the only thing she put inside was her beloved boogie board and flippers.
At Bali airport, a pillowcase sized vacuum sealed bag stuffed full of high-quality marijuana was nestled alongside the boogie board.
From that day until now Corby has insisted the marijuana was not hers and that she was as shocked as anyone else to see it there.
She doesn't know how it got there but her defence has always pointed the finger at corrupt baggage handlers, using unwitting passengers luggage to ferry drugs through airports. And as colourful as this claim is it's not without foundation.
In May, 2005, baggage handlers at Sydney Airport were arrested and accused of being paid $300,000 to help smuggle a briefcase of almost 10kg of cocaine.
And the date of that was October 8, 2004 - the same day that Corby and her luggage were transiting from Brisbane, through Sydney airport to Bali. Corby's legal team said this added weight to the theory.
The problem has always been that Corby's boogie board bag was not individually weighed and recorded when she checked in at Brisbane airport, so there was no way of knowing what it weighed as it left the country.
It was always an uphill battle for the legal team - how to show that Corby had no knowledge of the drugs in her bag.
The lawyers representing her - Lily Lubis and Erwin Siregar - passionately believed that she was an innocent woman. But that was never going to be enough.
Enter the Australian connection. As Corby's trial progressed through Denpasar District Court, an unlikely "white knight" came to her defence.
Flamboyant mobile phone entrepreneur Ron Bakir, convinced of her innocence, flew to Bali and agreed to help her defence.
With him was his old mate, Gold Coast lawyer Robyn Tampoe. The duo became her supposed saviours, took on the role of agents and PR, and with them Corby was convinced that she would be acquitted.
Those close to the case say that she truly believed that on July 27, 2005, the day of her verdict, that the three judges would find her not guilty and let her go home.
They didn't and sentenced her to 20 years in jail.
Tampoe and Bakir had even organised for an Australian man, John Ford, on remand in a Victorian prison, to be flown over to give evidence about overhearing a conversation between two other prisoners,
who suggested the marijuana was planted in the bag mistakenly and that the owner had lost drugs between Brisbane and Sydney.
He named the drug owner but refused to say who put them there, saying he feared for his life.
Things did not end well. The Corby family severed ties with Bakir and Tampoe and Tampoe has since been struck from the legal roll for misconduct for breaching client confidentiality for remarks he made about the Corby family.
And as if the hysteria hadn't already reached fever pitch, then along came another self-promoting high-profile character to add to the cast - Jakarta celebrity lawyer Hotman Paris Hutapea.
The hope was that Hotman was well-connected in Jakarta, knew the ropes and could help Corby.
He travelled in a bulletproof Hummer, and was well-known for sporting a gun on his ankle and expensive diamond jewellery.
He had the bling and enough connections to have the case reopened by the High Court for the purpose of hearing from a tranch of new witnesses.
In the end, the witnesses were airport staff who said little more than the fact there was nothing suspicious about Corby or her luggage when she checked in.
Initially sentenced to 20 years, this was reduced, on appeal, to 15 years. But on further appeal, to the Supreme Court, it was reinstated back to 20 years.
For Corby it was a devastating blow. The best years of her life destined to be spent in jail, where conditions were awful to say the least. It would almost crush her.
In the overcrowded women's block of Bali's main prison, at Kerobokan, as she struggled to get through each day, she was descending into the black hole of mental illness.
She was paranoid, delusional, thought people had drilled holes in the roof of her cell and were spying on her, that everyone had a camera.
It got worse and worse and eventually she was curled up in a foetal position. Her sister Mercedes had to feed her. Twice she was taken to hospital for psychiatric treatment. At its worst she was diagnosed as suffering "severe psychosis".
Different psychiatric medications were tried but they would only help if they were given in the right doses and that was a problem given that she was in jail.
Another prisoner was tasked with being the guardian of Corby's medication and its administration. The medicine was sold to other prisoners on the black market and Corby went off the rails.
It was only later that the proper dosages were worked out and she has managed to become more stable.
Cont -
http://www.news.com.au/national/sch...n-for-nine-years/story-fncynjr2-1226821069776
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Seven secures exclusive Schapelle Corby interview
Schapelle Corby has scored a hugely profitable triple whammy today: she's free from jail, she's signed a deal with Channel Seven worth as much as $3 million - and she's used the media bidding war as payback to Channel Nine for airing a movie about her crime, with the network not even able to put an offer on the table.
One industry source said the exclusive Seven deal - one of the biggest chequebook journalism deals in Australian TV history - may have been stitched up long before the dramatic events of recent days as the convicted drug smuggler's parole was approved by the Indonesian government.
"I believe it was done ages ago when Nine first signed up for the movie," the source said. "That's when the Corbys stopped talking [to Nine]."
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Sources said Seven had gone for a "slam-dunk" knockout blow with the huge offer said to be around the $3 million mark.
Corby was seen leaving the parole office in Bali today in the company of legendary TV current affairs interrogator Mike Willesee, who does occasional stories for Seven's Sunday Night program.
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Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment...y-interview-20140210-32bg5.html#ixzz2stQk7mn4
Schapelle Corby has scored a hugely profitable triple whammy today: she's free from jail, she's signed a deal with Channel Seven worth as much as $3 million - and she's used the media bidding war as payback to Channel Nine for airing a movie about her crime, with the network not even able to put an offer on the table.
One industry source said the exclusive Seven deal - one of the biggest chequebook journalism deals in Australian TV history - may have been stitched up long before the dramatic events of recent days as the convicted drug smuggler's parole was approved by the Indonesian government.
"I believe it was done ages ago when Nine first signed up for the movie," the source said. "That's when the Corbys stopped talking [to Nine]."
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Sources said Seven had gone for a "slam-dunk" knockout blow with the huge offer said to be around the $3 million mark.
Corby was seen leaving the parole office in Bali today in the company of legendary TV current affairs interrogator Mike Willesee, who does occasional stories for Seven's Sunday Night program.
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Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment...y-interview-20140210-32bg5.html#ixzz2stQk7mn4
Good for her.. I dont think a woman of this stature would ever have traded three mil for those years.. but shit this is earth and its kinda fuced.. she seems to be doing reasonably well.. I guess i can only hope I meet her on a moonlit beach.. finding her clad in only a smile and a boogie board. Congradulations.. your free and have a bit of cash!!
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I wish we had a Son of Sam law here. $3m for her story is bullshit.
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Good on her.
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Her sister mercedes is already going hard -
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