"Fitted up" in Bali ?

Friends say no drugs in Corby's bag before flight
March 3, 2005 - 8:09PM http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Friends-say-no-drugs-in-Corbys-bag-before-flight/2005/03/03/1109700605822.html

Schapelle Corby's boogie board bag contained no marijuana when she left Australia for Bali last October, her travelling partners told a Balinese court today.
Alyth McComb, a Gold Coast bartender who has known Corby for four years, told Denpasar District Court that Corby had packed her boogie board bag in front of her three travelling partners and her mother on the morning of her flight to Bali.
McComb said she handed a pair of flippers to Corby as she packed in a room with another friend, Katrina Richards and Corby's younger brother James Kisina - who was also joining the holiday to Bali.
Corby peeled open the boogie board bag and placed the flippers on top of the board inside. It was clear to all that there was nothing else inside the bag, McComb said.
Corby, 27, faces the death penalty. She was charged with drug smuggling after Indonesian customs officers allegedly found 4.1kg of cannabis leaf and heads inside her boogie board bag when she arrived at Bali airport.
The Gold Coast beauty student claims someone must have planted the pillow case-sized stash in her luggage somewhere between Brisbane and Sydney airports.
Her lawyers today launched their defence case with testimony from her three travelling partners and an expert witness.
Before the hearing began, around 15 protesters from an anti-narcotics organisation called GRANAT turned up with placards and demanded Corby be sentenced to death if convicted of drug trafficking.
Verging on tears, McComb testified that Corby had never dealt in or used drugs.
"If anything she's against drugs," McComb said.
She said there was no chance for anyone to slip anything in Corby's bag before they checked in at Brisbane airport, the last time they saw their luggage before Bali.
"She (Corby) was with me the whole time on the plane and we didn't see the bags on the plane and we didn't see them in Sydney," where they were in transit for two to three hours, she said.
In separate testimony, Kisina and Richards supported McComb's version of events.
Kisina, who along with Corby was taken to a small room at the airport for questioning, also rejected claims by customs officers that Corby ever admitted owning the marijuana.
"Customs officers asked her: 'What is it?' And, Schapelle said: 'I don't know," he told the three-judge panel.
He also supported claims by Corby that she voluntarily opened the bag and never tried to stop customs officers from doing so.
Earlier, a lawyer who had helped draft Indonesia's tough drug laws was asked in court if someone could be convicted of importing an illegal substance if they did not know it was in their luggage.
"If there was no intention (to import) and if she was used by others, then she should be freed," University of Indonesia Professor Loebby Lukman said.
However, he later said Corby's case could be considered importing.
The trial has been adjourned until March 17.
AAP