Posted on 09/15/2022 12:39:27 AM PDT by Libloather
More than a month has passed since Brittney Griner was sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison, and the WNBA star is "stressed" as she waits for news on her appeal process or a possible prisoner exchange, her lawyer tells PEOPLE.
With no new updates on her next possible steps, "Brittney is stressed and very much concerned with the future," her lawyer Maria Blagovolina, a partner at Rybalkin Gortsunyan Dyakin and Partners, says.
Griner was sentenced to nine years in prison on Aug. 4 on charges of smuggling drugs into the country, just below the maximum sentence of 10 years. After the trial, Blagovolina had said the sentence was "absolutely unreasonable," and that she and Griner's legal team will file an appeal as soon as possible.
That happened on Aug. 15, and nearly a month later, they're still waiting to learn what day the hearings will start, Blagovolina says.
Blagovolina had previously told PEOPLE that they don't know if the appeal will be successful - and historically, appeals have not done much to change Russian prison sentences - but said that they have to try.
"We need to use every legal opportunity that we have, and appeal is one of these opportunities," she said.
Once the appeal does begin, the process will also take several months, another of Griner's lawyers, Alexander Boykov, from the Moscow Legal Center, told PEOPLE. "It's not very fast."
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That’s my sentiment. No need to kneel before that vile anthem!
Prison must suck.
I guess that’s why folks don’t break the laws that will result in them getting put away.
The same Kamala Harris who laughed when asked if she smoked marijuana despite prosecuting others?
I saw that movie in Athens, Greece while backpacking thru Europe. While I wasn’t traveling “dangerously” (doing drugs, etc), that movie scared the bejeebus out of me.
Also...great soundtrack.
LOL, the WNBA gets all their money from the NBA.
Too bad we don’t imprison people who break our laws, like the BLM rioters.
The W in WNBA stands for “welfare”.
;-)
Anyway, I'm thinking the Russians have a lot more on their plate right now to be worrying about some spoiled American drug smuggler in their prison system. This person sure picked a bad time to bring drugs into Russia.
Maybe Putin will take my suggestion—offer to exchange Brittney for the J6 political prisoners.
No doubt about that!
As an aside, topless BB photos of Brittney posted on FR certainly looks like a dude...so maybe he does have a normal female wife.
We are supposed to feel sorry for her but not the Jan. 6 persecuted innocents.
That movie midnight express disturbed me... But... There’s never been a better set of breasts pressed up against a window in any movie since!! Lol...
Oh yea, this chick/dude whatever. Forgot about it.
Awww, poor thang is stressed?
I imagine the Jan 6 innocents in prison are stressed, also.
Is Griner being housed in the Men’s prison or Women’s prison?
No. The guy(actor Brad Davis) killed the Turkish guard who was about to rape him, stole his uniform(which was just a little too big for him) and walked out of the prison.
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