Friday, August 1, 2008

Destruction of Evidence and Indonesia's Shame

There were so many breaches of Schapelle Corby's legal and human rights during her harrowing show trial that it is difficult to know where to start when referencing them. Whilst many of these are listed in our case assessment, I intend to examine some of them in more detail, via occasional log entries.

The first port of call will be the core evidence itself: the marijuana.

It is fairly well known that the police and regime:
- refused to forensically test the drugs for country of origin
- refused to fingerprint or DNA them
... despite Schapelle Corby's desperate pleas.

Even with familiarity with these facts though, they are still staggering. They are a stain on an entire nation's integrity.


TESTING THE DRUGS FOR ORIGIN
Testing marijuana for country of origin is a straight forward procedure. Pollen and other territorial dependent material is always present, which makes it quite simple to pin-point the source.

So.... if that source was Indonesia.... the case collapses, instantly. Schapelle Corby could not have imported it. Indonesia loses its high profile drugs case, which would have hindered its attempts to procure a fortune in external funding.

Her begging for those tests to be conducted was simply ignored.


FINGERPRINTING THE DRUGS
If Schapelle Corby had ever touched those drugs or their wrapping, she would have left DNA or fingerprints behind: a fantastic opportunity for the prosecution to nail her beyond any doubt. Hang on... they didn't perform those checks. Not only did they not perform these BASIC elementary checks, they REFUSED Schapelle Corby's formal requests to perform them! Yes: refused.

Why? The obvious answer is that Schapelle's DNA and fingerprints were not there... and they knew it.... or at least they couldn't risk it. They couldn't risk it because, again, the case against her would be exposed, along with that external funding.

Her begging for due investigation was again completely ignored.


We know the outcome.... incredibly, they convicted her... and shamefully sentenced her to a barbaric 20 year term (yes, more than rapists and murderers can often expect). She is still there now, suffering terribly because of it.


THE RITUAL BURNING
But it doesn't even end here! What does a criminal do to evidence to cover his tracks? To ensure that his actions can never be exposed?

He destroys it, of course.

The Indonesian regime is no different. Those drugs were a risk: testing them for country of origin, or DNS/fingerprinting them, could clear Schapelle Corby at any stage. They had to go.

They were therefore gleefully burned... again despite Schapelle Corby's desperate pleas to retain them.


Incredible, isn't it. Here is a so-called court willfully destroying the evidence which could clear the defendant of a crime. Rather than testing it, they burned it, with the defendant in tears. I can't even begin to imagine how she must have felt.


THE BIGGER GAME
Is anybody happy with this? Can anyone even attempt to justify any of it, in any way at all? It is frankly, inhuman.

Yet this is just one illustration of how she never had a chance... none at all. She didn't have a trial: only a pre-ordained show trial. Schapelle Corby was a resource to be used in a much bigger game. Her terror and continued suffering were not, and are still not, even on the radar.

All the innuendo and false reporting in the world will not change these facts. They will continue to haunt the Indonesian regime, and their apologists, until the day Schapelle Corby is released from her living hell.

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2 Comments:

At August 1, 2008 9:30 PM , Blogger DJ Wolf said...

I always say to people, okay, imagine if she were guilty. Imagine that for some insane reason Schapelle Corby imported the marijuana into Bali and got caught red-handed. Would the Police say, "Yes, since she didn't attempt to hide the drugs we have every reason to believe that her fingerprints are all over the plastic but we don't need to convict her convincingly... We like long drawn out argumentative trials where the defendant has a fighting chance." Really? Or, "We don't need to weigh her luggage here to prove that she had the drugs before she boarded the airplane..." Or, "We don't need to analyse the incriminating evidence to show Schapelle's hair caught in the sticky resin."

Well, the Bali Police were right in one respect... There are a lot of stupid people around.

 
At November 13, 2008 11:43 PM , Blogger Kristie Davidson said...

I THINK WHAT HAS HAPPEND TO THAT POOR GIRL IS WRONG IN SO MANY WAYS HOW CAN THEY SAY SHE DID IT??? I FEEL SO MAD ABOUT THIS AND SAD FOR HER AND HER FAMILY IT IS SICK WHAT THAT COUNTRY HAS DONE TO HER IT IS CLEAR THAT SHE DIDN'T DO IT? AND WHY IS IT THAT NOBODY CAN HELP THAT POOR GIRL WHY?? IT MAKES ME SICK TO THINK WHAT SHE IS GOING THROUGH RIGHT NOW EVEN AS I WRITE THIS.. I JUST KNOW THAT IN THE END THE PEOPLE THAT DID THIS TO HER WILL GET WHAT IS COMIN TO THEM GOD WILL PUNISH THEM IN THE END.. IT IS STUFF LIKE THIS THAT MAKES ME GLAD I LIVE IN CANADA CAUSE OUR COUNTRY IS NOT STUPID ENOUGH TO ACT LIKE THIS.. THIS WOULD NEVER HAPPEN IF IT WAS HERE AND I CANNOT BELIEVE HOW SICK THIS IS AND HOW THERE IS NOBODY IN THIS WORLD THAT CAN HELP THIS POOR WOMEN PEOPLE NEED TO GIVE THERE HEADS A SHAKE BECAUSE I KNOW THAT SOMEWHERE OUT THERE IS SOMEONE THAT CAN HELP HER I JUST HOPE THEY DO IT BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE FOR HER..

 

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