Posted on 08/04/2022 8:37:19 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
KHIMKI, Russia (AP) — A judge in Russia has convicted and sentenced American basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison for drug possession and smuggling.
Judge Anna Sotnikova said the time Griner has served in custody since her arrest in February would count toward the sentence.
Griner reacted to the sentence with little emotion. She listened to the verdict with a blank stare on her face.
While recapping the evidence and giving her findings Thursday, the judge said the 31-year-old Griner illegally brought drugs into Russia.
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By American standards.
But it wasn't smuggling drugs into the US and it was not it's first trip to Russia. It has been making Big$$ playing BBall there for some time. Headline from Yahoo News: "Brittney Griner ‘only playing’ in Russia due to gender pay gap, says US teammates".
It knew Russian law. It just thought it was above the law there like it is here; Privileged", you might say.
Post of the Day!!!
Hey People! She was smuggling drugs. She broke the law, knowingly. Her problem not ours.
In China she would get the death penalty
I’m not going to war over someone’s idiotic drug habits.
Just look at his shirtless pictures...it is obvious
The only court he’ll be seeing is a court of law.
I wonder if he'll find a new girlfriend in jail.
Those are HE feet, fer sure
Does anybody care?
At the end, the Gregory Hines character wants to come home, but is kept in Russia. The KGB characters take him at night to a forest where he believes he will be executed. He is told to walk while guards are present. At some point lights come on and prisoners are exchanged.
In RODINA prisons do not have courts, they have quarries where you make very large rocks into very small rocks!
(in my very bad Boris Badenov imitation)
Hi Bill.
Good point.
Remember that some laws are international and fall under certain treaties.
Arms, biological weapons extradition, admiralty law, etc.
Between you and me this guy (Bout) is small fish. The Mossad wasn’t even interested.
I don’t like Griner personally or her stance on BLM, Cops or anything regarding her politics, but “she” is not a threat to Russia.
5.56mm
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