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Russian prosecutors seek 9 1/2-year sentence for Brittney Griner
World News Era ^
| 08/4/2022
| Evelyn Blackwell
Posted on 08/04/2022 7:58:05 AM PDT by rod5591
Russian prosecutors asked a court outside Moscow to sentence American basketball star Brittney Griner to 9 1/2 years in prison as closing arguments in her cannabis possession trial were made Thursday.
The trial is nearing its end nearly six months after Griner’s arrest at a Moscow airport and subsequent detention, a case that has reached the highest levels of U.S.-Russia diplomacy. She faces up to 10 years in prison, if convicted
Although a conviction appears almost certain, given that Russian courts rarely acquit defendants and Griner has acknowledged having vape cartridges with cannabis oil in her luggage, judges have considerable latitude on sentencing.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: andagain; degeneracy; russia; tattoos; usa
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To: Kazan
You left out the lesbian part and that she's "married" to another woman. The latter isn't happening in Russia, either.So no conjugal visits for Griner and her wife.
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posted on
08/04/2022 1:27:45 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
To: dfwgator
LOL! One of my favorite flicks....
I'm bilingual too.
Don't I know it!
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posted on
08/04/2022 1:29:34 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
To: SMARTY
Other than as a sop to the LGBT community, why would we even try to get her back? Yes there is a political complement to her sentence but she knowingly openly violated Russian law. To hell with her. I can tell you President Biden wouldn’t give a rat’s rear about me if I put myself in such a fix.
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posted on
08/04/2022 1:33:34 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
To: Tommy Revolts
This shouldn't even be an issue. Who the f*ck is Brittney Griner, seriously.Indeed. No one I give damn about.
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posted on
08/04/2022 1:35:41 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
To: caww
She is an example of how the Left ruins people’s lives. In a way I feel sorry for her but “lay down with dogs and get up with fleas”.
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posted on
08/04/2022 1:37:35 PM PDT
by
laplata
(They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
To: dfwgator
LOL, if they did test for marijuana, then the NBA would consist of all white players. True that!
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posted on
08/04/2022 1:37:58 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
To: caww
As i understand it she tried several times to call off the wedding ...I mean, how can you NOT call off a wedding if you want to? It does take TWO does it not?
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posted on
08/04/2022 1:44:00 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
To: caww
She’ll be spending some months now at whatever penal colony they send her to, while her attorneys appeal and Putin and Biden debate a prison exchange. Let's look at the potential bright side - maybe Griner will come out with her personal Gulag Archipelago...
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posted on
08/04/2022 1:47:53 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
To: Rummyfan
I think her mate was a gold digger - appears she got pregnant with twins before they married - so I just think she gets played quite a bit. Rather nieve as well and there’s always peopleready to jump on someone like that.
I’m not defending her but i just think from what I’ve heard, read and found she doesn’t strike me as one who does well socially - out of the sports arena.
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posted on
08/04/2022 2:41:31 PM PDT
by
caww
(O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
To: Rummyfan
Her ‘situation’ is not political .... it’s racial and Vlad knows it
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posted on
08/05/2022 4:52:11 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
(“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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