corby outcome predictions???, page-59

re: burpo: understand corby will be found guilty I don't think so, burpo. It's just that a 6 month sentence wouldn't bother us so much because even if she were innocent, well, it'd be only 6 months; but as it is the problem is compounded by the severity of the sentence as well as the accuracy of the decision by the judges. Unless there's something we haven't be told, and that's quite possible considering the dead beats who run our media and the politicking behind the scenery, I suggest she's innocent.
Far too many things were neglected by the Indos, far less stringent questions asked of the customs officer who is probably stacking his daks, lest he is attacked by either our MOB or their MOB, hardly any expert witnesses given a chance to speak or given any due consideration for what they had to say, no witnesses whatsoever were brought into court on Scharpelle's behalf and those who were brought in were summarily dismissed, there is "reasonable doubt" as to her innocence or guilt (which I know is a western view and not necessarily an Indo), the board bag was carried by her brother, it's hard to believe that someone who wants to smuggle so much of this cr@p would place it all in a plastic, see-through bag and not in bits and pieces and in tightly wrapped, smell-camouflaged little bags or containers...
The whole case is full of holes.
And when so much doubt clouds certainty, then the least the judges can do is lessen the sentence. But courts don't work that way. They find people either innocent or guilty. Freedom or death, or huge time behind bars and in despicable conditions.