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ACADEMIC GUN FOR HIRE? Professor Tim Lindsey Director of The Asian Law Centre, University of Melbourne . . . it’s since emerged her sentence was 4 times higher than any term (ever), given to an Indonesian for a similar weight, and twice as high as the penalty imposed on an Indonesian man found with 161 kilos of the drug (40 times more than Schapelle). Further, the Dean of Melbourne University backs Tim’s silence, and also refuses to supply any academic references or proof for Tim’s (apparently), wildly inaccurate words in 2005. Did Tim lie in 2005? On the day Indonesia sentenced Schapelle to 20 years in hell for 4.2 kilos of marijuana, Prof. Tim Lindsey told the Australian press her sentence was “Light” by Indonesian standards, but to-day he point- blank refuses to provide any evidence for that claim, and . . .

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ACADEMIC GUN FOR HIRE?Professor Tim Lindsey Director of The Asian Law Centre,

University of Melbourne

. . . it’s since emerged her sentence was 4 times higher than any term (ever), given to an Indonesian for a similar weight, and twice as high as the penalty imposed on an Indonesian man found with 161 kilos of the drug (40 times more than Schapelle). Further, the Dean of Melbourne University backs Tim’s silence, and also refuses to supply any academic references or proof for Tim’s (apparently), wildly inaccurate words in 2005.

Did Tim lie in 2005?On the day Indonesia sentenced Schapelle to 20 years in hell for 4.2 kilos of marijuana, Prof. Tim Lindsey told the Australian press her sentence was “Light” by Indonesian standards, but to-day he point-blank refuses to provide any evidence for that claim, and . . .