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Rush to launch final appeal

Bali Nine drug smuggler Scott Rush will begin his final appeal against his death sentence today.

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His Indonesian lawyers will seek a 15-year sentence arguing Rush was only a minor player in the 2005 plot to smuggle more than eight kilograms of heroin out of Bali.

Another of the Bali Nine Renae Lawrence and fellow Australian Schapelle Corby had their 20-year drug sentences cut by five months for good behaviour yesterday as part of Indonesia's Independence Day celebrations.

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Corby's lawyers have applied for presidential clemency on humanitarian grounds.


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