Corby lawyers to attack police over failure 'admission'

SYDNEY - Indonesian prosecutors will have their final say in Schapelle Corby's drugs trial today after Bali police rejected defence accusations that they bungled their investigation.

Corby's legal team has also criticised comments made by the trial's head judge, who appeared unmoved by Corby's emotional plea of innocence last week.

Bali prosecutor I Bagus Wiswantanu has already called for the 27-year-old Gold Coast woman to be jailed for life for allegedly trying to smuggle 4.1kg of marijuana into Bali last October.

Today in the Denpasar District Court he will reply to last week's defence call for her acquittal.

Corby's lawyers say that after her arrest at Denpasar airport police failed to fingerprint the boogie board bag that contained the drugs.

Corby has suggested the drugs were put in her bag after she had checked in for the flight to Bali, possibly by a criminal gang operating at Australian airports.

Vasu Rasiah, an adviser to Corby's legal team, said the prosecutor was now trying to pull a rabbit out of a hat and was ignoring key evidence.

The defence team would "definitely" make another submission to the court next week, zeroing in on reports that Bali's top drugs cop Colonel Bambang Sugiarto had acknowleged that the case hadn't been properly investigated.

Sugiarto has rejected defence claims of incompetence. He said if the evidence against Corby had been insufficient, the case would never have gone to trial.

Rasiah also criticised Linton Sirait, the chief judge hearing Corby's case, for saying Corby had not proved her innocence in her emotional statement last week, when she asked the court to free her.

Rasiah said the comments were "amazing" and could lead to an appeal if Corby was found guilty and sentenced to life in jail, as prosecutors have demanded.

With Rasiah's promise of a reply to the prosecutor, a verdict by the court's three-judge panel is now likely by the end of the month, possibly May 26.

- AAP