Indonesian prosecutors confidently wrapped up their case against accused drug smuggler Schapelle Corby, dismissing defence testimony and her tearful plea of innocence as emotional words with no legal weight.
  
They told a Bali court they had presented enough damning evidence to have her locked away for life.
  
Worryingly for the defence team, the three judges in the Denpasar District Court appeared to nod in agreement during the prosecution's summation.
  
Defence lawyer Lily Lubis also appeared pessimistic ahead of a verdict from the judges, possibly on May 26.
  
In their final statement to the court, prosecutors denied they had ignored key evidence the defence claims shows Corby is innocent of smuggling 4.1 kg of marijuana into Bali airport last October.
  
Corby's legal team had tried to sway the judges with emotional arguments, instead of legal fact, they said.
  
"We conclude legally that there was nothing to respond to," prosecutor Ni Wayan Sinaryati said of the defence case.
  
"According to us it is natural and common in the defence effort for lawyers to have a different view," he said.
  
"But the lawyers have used phrases which are emotive and not sympathetic towards police and the customs."
  
Sinaryati said there had been little about "real justice" in a two-hour defence submission read to the court ahead of an Corby's own personal appeal for freedom.
  
"To achieve justice we must follow the law," she said.
  
Sinaryati argued it was legal fact that Corby had brought the drugs to Bali in her unlocked bodyboard bag.
  
She said defence witness statements from Corby's family and friends could not be trusted.
  
She also attacked evidence from Victorian prisoner John Ford - who was stabbed in a Victorian jail this week after testifying in support of Corby.
  
Ford told the court last month that he had heard two other Australian inmates laughing about how the 27-year-old had been an innocent "mule" used by domestic drug gangs in Australia.
  
Sinaryati said such claim had come from someone who had been "joking".
  
"The statement was not based on valid legal procedure," Sinaryati said.
  
Corby, dressed in a green shirt and black slacks, only learned of Ford's stabbing when she was led past a smaller than usual group of waiting journalists, thinned out by fears of a police visa raid during the court hearing.
  
Her lawyer Lubis said she hoped Ford's stabbing - which she said she would tell judges about next week - would help convince them that his evidence about a domestic drug smuggling ring in Australia had been serious.
  
"We cannot influence the judges, but we believe that with their intelligence they can see it is not a joke," she said.
  
Lubis also started talking about the possibility of an appeal.
  
"This is only the first court," she said.
  
"It is the system, when you cannot get what you expect.
  
"If it is not (a verdict for freedom), of course we will not give up."
  
Lubis said Corby, who was shaking on her way into court, was becoming increasingly depressed as the verdict drew closer and hoped she was not becoming suicidal.
  
"She is a strong person, the strongest I ever met," Lubis said.
  
"So I hope she will not do the stupid thing like that."