AUSTRALIAN authorities want Schapelle Corby's final appeal against her Bali drug
smuggling conviction to fail because her arrival home would expose "lies and
corruption", her mother claims.
Lawyers for 29-year-old Corby, who is serving a 20-year sentence in Bali's Kerobokan
Prison, will take her appeal to the Denpasar District Court next week, probably on
Friday.
"Today we submitted our application for a judicial review on behalf of our client
Schapelle Corby," her lawyer Erwin Siregar said.
The Indonesian Supreme Court will make a final decision on her appeal after the
District Court hearing.
It will be Corby's last chance to prove her innocence before she makes a plea for
clemency to Indonesia's President.
Her mother Rosleigh Rose said the appeal offered a chance to "get to the truth".
Corby has long maintained that the 4.1kg of marijuana found in her bodyboard bag at
Denpasar Airport in October 2004 was planted by baggage handlers.
"There's still hope . . . it has to be dug up to get to the truth," Ms Rose said in
Brisbane.
"I can't believe how our government and the federal police have lied - they don't
want her home, free.
"They know someone is responsible for what has happened to Schapelle and the federal
police are covering it up, about the corruption at the airports," she said.
"There's a lot more stuff going on . . . they are up to something and they don't
want it out because it's so corrupt."
She said Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty made Corby "look bad
every time he commented".
"He said Schapelle didn't want their help with DNA (testing the marijuana) . . . but
Schapelle asked for their help," Ms Rose said.
Indonesian law says there are three reasons for a judicial review appeal, including
new evidence, disparity of decision made by judges at one of the courts, and
judicial negligence.
The defence team plans to submit a document requested from Australian Justice
Minister Chris Ellison about possible drug smuggling at Australian airports the day
Corby left for Bali.
Her lawyers will argue she should be acquitted because the judges did not properly
distinguish between importing, owning and using marijuana.
Corby runs no risk of increasing her sentence.
Schapelle Corby Case Information
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