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Justice and the Corby case.

Publication: Arena Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JUN-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Justice and the Corby case.(bites: BRIEF NOTES ON NEWS AND VIEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD)(Schapelle Corby )

Article Excerpt
Trev Smith never had a chance. An Australian, picked up by the cops after a couple of minor burglaries in Texas, under the influence of alcohol and marijuana, he was identified by two witnesses as someone leaving the scene of a horrific double-murder that had happened the same night. There was no DNA and no murder weapon, everything happened at night and the witnesses had conferred, but none of this was used to much effect in Smith's trial because his lawyer was an overworked and averagely-talented public defender who nodded off at the table more than once in a gung-ho execution state. The jury deliberated for three hours before sending Smith to Death Row.

Where he would still be now, if he weren't a fictional creation. The question...

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