Posted on 07/07/2022 9:52:51 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner pleaded guilty to a drug charge Thursday in a Russian court.
"I'd like to plead guilty, your honor. But there was no intent. I didn't want to break the law," Griner said in court. "I'd like to give my testimony later. I need time to prepare."
"If she wants to return home and she believes they're working on a prisoner swap, the faster that this proceeding ends, the faster she can get home," said William Pomeranz, an expert on Russian law.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said members of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow attended the hearing and "delivered to her a letter from President Biden."
"We will not relent until Brittney, Paul Whelan, and all other wrongfully detained Americans are reunited with their loved ones," Blinken stated in the tweet.
Bringing Griner home 'a priority' for the U.S. Griner has been behind bars since Feb. 17 when she flew into a Moscow airport and Russian customs officials allegedly found vape cartridges containing hashish oil in her luggage. She has been under investigation for the large-scale transportation of drugs.
In court Thursday, Griner told the court she accidentally packed the vape cartridges in her luggage.
A day after Griner sent a handwritten letter to President Joe Biden, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday that Griner's release "is a priority for this president."
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Best guess is she winds up in n. korea maybe working the rice fields …..
Wonder how many high-level Russian agents who have American blood on their hands are going to get a free ride home in order to placate the Vegetable's base over this kneeling hater of America?
She is a liar!
It would have been better if she just tore up a Russian McDonalds because they messed up her order.
I wish his priority would be enforcing the law and building the wall.
This gal seems to be a bit of a jerk, but I hope that they accept this plea and just send her home.
Me too
This is a job for Jesse Jackson. You know bitch slap the US while standing up for blacks. I don’t think he wants the job.
n. korea rice fields would good
She’s the new Bowe Bergdahl.
guilty but dindunuffin
Biden needs a w bad. He is going to give away the house, the car and everything else.
None would be my prediction.
The last I heard they were going to swap her for the arms dealer. I believe it is the guy they made a movie about staring Nicholas Cage. Known as “The Merchant of Death”
Viktor Anatolyevich Bout
He is in the Federal Pen Marion.
I did not want to break the law? So she is admitting the stuff was hers contrary to the claim of her wife?
They’ll work a prisoner swap because that’s what the Russians do. They’ll get back a spy, and we’ll get back an America-hating lesbian chunk of organic plant food.
The 2005 film “Lord of War” staring Nicholas Cage is purportedly based on allegations about Bout’s personal history and black-market activities.
She protested the NATIONAL ANTHEM at her basketball games. She should be happy to be in a country that also hates the US.
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