Corby given 'final chance' by court to prove case

DENPASAR - Convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby's legal team has been given another two weeks and a final chance to find new evidence to back her claim of innocence.

The chief judge presiding over Corby's reopened trial in the Denpasar District Court, Linton Sirait, gave the defence team until August 3 to bring witnesses from Australia. "This is the last chance," Sirait told Corby's counsel, Hotman Paris Hutapea.

The defence team had initially planned to produce 11 witnesses to support Corby's claim she did not know about 4.1kg of marijuana found in her unlocked baggage at Bali Airport last year.

Hutapea hopes to bring a mystery witness to court who is allegedly willing to admit that he put the drugs in Corby's bag in Australia.

The unnamed person will only testify if the Australian Government grants immunity from prosecution, Hutapea said.

Earlier yesterday, Corby's drugs trial reopened with an Indonesian law professor raising doubts about the case against her.

Indriyanto Seno Adji said police and custom officers should have found out how the marijuana got inside Corby's luggage.

"According to our law, you need witnesses who can prove who put the marijuana in the bag," he told the court.

- AAP