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Timeline of the Schapelle Corby case.
October 8, 2004: Schapelle Corby, 27, is arrested at Denpasar Airport after Indonesian customs officers find 4.1kg of marijuana in her unlocked boogie board bag.
January 28, 2005: Corby's trial begins.
February 25: Gold Coast businessman Ron Bakir offers to help Corby.
March 24: Corby tells the court she has no idea how the marijuana came to be in her luggage.
April 21: Prosecutors ask for a life sentence, but not the death penalty, if Corby is convicted.
April 29: John Patrick Ford, who has been remanded in prison to face charges in Victoria, tells the court in Denpasar he overheard prisoners talking about a stash of marijuana that was lost while being smuggled by baggage handlers.
May 25: Australian Justice Minister Chris Ellison says the Government is looking at a prisoner exchange agreement.
May 27: Corby found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in jail.
May 30: Perth QCs Mark Trowell and Tom Percy recruited to help Corby's appeal.
June 14: Corby's Indonesian legal team, including newly appointed Jakarta lawyer Hotman Hutapea, file an appeal against her 20-year jail term, demanding her case be reopened and new evidence heard. Earlier, Indonesian prosecutors file a separate appeal demanding Corby be jailed for life.
June 21: Corby's mother Rosleigh Rose claims Bakir asked her jailed daughter to repay him $500,000 in expenses. He denies the claim.
June 22: Mark Trowell, QC, claims that Corby's Indonesian defence team asked for $500,000 to bribe the appeal judges. The Indonesian judges deny the claim.
June 24: Corby fires her Indonesian legal team and breaks ties with Bakir.
June 26: Corby, citing stress and confusion, rehires her team except for lawyer Lily Lubis and adviser Vasu Rasiah.
June 28: Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono says he will not pardon convicted drug traffickers.
June 29: Corby says she remains confident she will be freed.
July 4: Bali High Court orders the case reopened.
July 20: Case is reopened in Denpasar District Court but only one expert witness testifies. Court gives the defence until August 3 to produce new witnesses.
August 3: Balinese judges end her reopened drugs trial and refuse to grant her lawyers more time to find new witnesses.
October 8: First anniversary of Corby's arrest.
October 12: Bali High Court reduces Corby's 20-year sentence by five years.
November: Parallel appeals are filed with Indonesia's Supreme Court in Jakarta; from the defence, wanting the sentence quashed and Corby freed, and the prosecution, wanting her 20-year sentence reinstated.
January 19, 2006: News breaks that the court has reinstated the original sentence.
