While Corby was behind bars, she has been baptized as Christian. She has been attending two church services every Sunday and spent time along with other Christians to pray to God for the truth and justice to prevail. She also reads the Bible in her cell.
Ms Corby's Australian lawyer said, "You can only imagine the pressure she is under. She has found religious supports behind bars, alternated between tears and prayers lately." Her Indonesian pastor said, "Corby is praying for her acquittal but knows she will need a miracle desperate many of drug offenders in the past has ever been freed."
Corby and her legal team headed by Lily Lubis, has pleaded her client's innocence in court. The chief judge in charge of the Corby case does not relish handling cases in which the maximum penalty is death. He said, "I am a judge. I am also a Christian and actually in my inner heart I don't want to handle the death penalty cases, but I am a judge and that is the challenge." The prosecutors have demanded life behind bars.
Corby's father, Michael Corby said his daughter had not touched illegal substances since her school days. "The night before Schapelle left her Gold Coast home for a holiday to Bali to celebrate her sister Mercedes' 30th birthday, he repaired his daughter's boogie board and packed it in its bag and put it in the car for the trip to the airport."