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I got around to watching the Schapelle Corby documentary that was on TV the other day - “Schapelle Corby: The Hidden Truth.” (I believe Ganja Queen was an alternative name of the program in some places it has been or will be shown. Can’t say it told me anything startling, although it did have its interesting bits.

It seems now that public opinion in Australia has turned significantly against Corby. A poll found that 53 per cent of people believe she is guilty while just 15 per cent say she is innocent. Almost a third of people remain unsure. This compares with something like 85% support for her innocence at the time of her trial.

I’ve always thought she was guilty. Her story is just so unconvincing in so many ways:

• magically, the marijuana bag just happens coincidentally to fit her bag perfectly
• magically, the baggage handlers in Australia happen to pick on her to smuggle marijuana, something thats never been reported before or since (and then why go to the trouble of smuggling it through airport security when you could stack a car boot full of it and have far less risk of detection moving the stuff interstate?)
• magically, the Indonesian customs officers decide they’ll fabricate their evidence about her evasive behaviour at Customs in Denpasar - oddly no reports of similar fabrications before or since
• it was always suss that the defence team relied on a PR campaign to win her sympathy, with no legally substantive defence offered at all.

And I could go on and on about the dodginess of her family. We were laughing at home that it was like watching a David Attenborough wildlife special on bogans. They are way beyond bogan!

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Juan Manuel Alvarez attempted to commit suicide in January 2005.

His chosen method was to park his car on the railway tracks and wait for the train. However, he chickened out, and changed his mind at the last minute. However, he could not move the car, so he fled the scene to a friend’s house. His car was hit by a Los Angeles-bound train, which derailed and then ploughed into a train travelling in the opposite direction. 11 people were killed andf more than 180 injured.

Alvarez was found guilty of murder this week, and now faces the death penalty.

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