Posted on 08/04/2022 2:57:02 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Brittney Griner was found guilty of drug charges in a Russian court on Thursday. Shortly after being found guilty, she was sentenced to nine years in Russian prison. The prosecution was reportedly seeking nine and a half years.
Griner is being used as a political pawn. Now, with the sentencing, it forces the hand of President Joe Biden to do something sooner rather than later and get the American citizen out of Russian prison.
The American justice system is far from perfect, but this outrageous sentencing should put things into perspective for everyone, including LeBron James, about how unjust other justice systems around the world operate.
America is attempting to trade the Merchant of Death Viktor Bout for the American basketball star, but it’s unclear if that’s going to happen or not.
Immediately after the sentencing, Biden released a statement saying “Russia is wrongfully detaining” Griner.
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LOL.
Hope she makes back to the USA and kiss the ground.
She is someone who got into something above her/his pay grade/, hope the Biden mess can figure a way to get her back.
She (he) can tell all the Russian prisoners how bad America is.
They know she has a lot of “trade value” being a sports “personality” and a woke female lesbo halfrican. And likely the swap will happen to their great advantage.
How do you know it is obviously political? Do you have information on how they’ve treated similar cases?
Comparisons to our laws are irrelevant.
On another bright note - things for the prison basketball team are looking up.
what was she caught with?
Hash oil
An Israeli woman, also an American citizen, got a 7.5 year sentence a few years ago for 9 grams of hash.
Putin pardoned her after a year at the request of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Tell all you folks what.
I’d have her outta there in a deal with the Russians within a day.
Offer them up George Soros for her.
She is lucky. Some countries will give you the death sentence for this. As we have seen with the Biden regime, most punishments, or non punishments, are now political.
Maybe she can come live with you
There you go, similar crime with a similar sentence.
A penis instead of an innie
Yup... lived in Japan for three years, they can put you in prison for 30 days for no reason, with no charges, no phone call and no lawyer. We knew a woman who landed in prison for 48 hours for literally nothing more than a fender bender.
increasing the diversity of the russian prison system. progs should be happy
American sentenced to 14 years hard labor in Russia for cannabis.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/26/politics/marc-fogel-russia/index.html
Can’t do the time...
I’d trade Whoppi Goldberg and Don Lemon for Brittney Griner.
That's all the article says about the quantities. It's hard to compare raw pot with hash oil too. A gram of hash oil must be at least 50 times as potent as a gram of raw marijuana.
Holy cow 🐄
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