Lawyers of an Australian sentenced to 20 years in jail for smuggling drugs into Indonesia's Bali island filed arguments today in her appeal against last month's ruling.
Schapelle Corby's lawyers lodged their first document of appeal to the Bali High Court two weeks ago, following up with detailed counter-arguments today against the conviction.
Prosecutors, who want the 27-year old woman, to serve life in jail, filed their appeal yesterday.
Public outrage has brewed in Australia against Schapelle Corby's conviction. Indonesia's embassy in Canberra has been shut twice after receiving packages of what later proved to be harmless white powder, and embassy staff have received threatening phone calls since her sentencing.
Corby has insisted the drugs found in her bodyboard bag by a Bali customs officer at the island's international airport were planted there by someone at an Australian airport.
"The one who should prove the ownership of the drugs is not us. It is the duty of the prosecution. So, if they can't prove such a thing, she must be freed," said Hotman Paris Hutapea, a high-profile Jakarta-based lawyer, who was recruited by Corby's defence after the Denpasar district court ruled on May 27th she was guilty smuggling 4.1 kilogrammes of marijuana into Bali.
Mr Hutapea argued that Corby's drug possession was unwitting and said testimony in Corby's trial from an Australian inmate - who said he overheard a conversation in jail that allegedly revealed the stashed drugs were owned by someone else - should be enough reason to debunk the charges.
However, the prosecution see the case as open-and-shut, arguing Corby was caught red-handed bringing illegal narcotics into the country because she admitted the bag, which was opened in front of her, belonged to her.