If you think Schapelle Corby's excuse of "Those are not my drugs!" was unbelievable, perhaps you should take a look at this story. A Japanese police officer stuck 1/3 of a lb of pot into some unsuspecting passenger's suitcase at Tokyo Airport in order to test out his drug dog. The dog failed to find the pot, and the cop couldn't remember which bag he put it in.
Oops. Now someone is traveling around with 142 grams of pot in their suitcase. I hope they're not on their way to Indonesia.
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From your Wikipedia link:
"...In a June 2008 documentary, Schapelle Corby: The Hidden Truth, Corby's former lawyer, Robin Tampoe, said that he fabricated the defence theory that Australian baggage handlers could have planted the drugs in Corby's luggage, and that former Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer told him he suspected Corby's brothers were behind the convicted drug smuggler's crime..."
Well, barring any direct evidence as to who may have planted the drugs, any plausible theory would technically be "made up".
For example: Imagine if you are on your way home one day and are arrested because police found drugs in your car. You didn't put them there. Who did? You don't know. But you surmise that it must have been dropped by one of your kid's friends (or perhaps your kid). The problem for you and your lawyers is, you don't have any evidence that that is what really happened, except for your testimony that they're not your drugs (just the sort of thing they would expect someone caught with drugs to say). In other words, you 'just made that up'. Lawyers do this all the time, in fact, they have to in most cases.
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