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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Griner plays basketball in Russia so she knows the ins and outs...
She still looka like a man.
Jeez, I’m trying to follow this story, but having a really difficult time. What is the perp’s sex and as what does he/she/it identify?
Agree with those here that say Biden will give up Alaska to get her back. The vocal minority will get their way....again.
Well it would get rid of Murkowski.
Why is Biden under pressure to make a deal? Is it because Griner is a celebrity? The other prisoner, Paul Whelan, has been held for almost four years. He apparently didn’t get considered for a swap until Griner was arrested a few months ago.
If so, then she was pretty stupid for not taking advantage of that opportunity.
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People like her don’t think laws anywhere apply to them.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
Griner is a member of the Woke Royal Family.
Black Privilege
LGBT Privilege
Leftist agitator Privilege
You did know that, right?
Hi.
Will Joe Biteme trade a Russian arms dealer for an WNBA star?
One has killed people, one is just ugly.
0bama’s instructions to Joe? Getter done.
5.56mm
Well, I guess it's her first home now.
Send him to the “House of Special Purpose”.
It still hates America, send it off to a gulag in Siberia, I don’t care
>She just needs to get used to eating borscht 3 times a day.
And after 9+ years in the gulag, hesheit will be fluent in the Russian language.
He'll be a Black Russian. (A HA HA!)
She is a she. She is a lesbian though.
Will “she” be in a men’s prison?
Aside from that, the US "officially" (and unofficially) provides arms to all sorts of unsavory characters and groups with impunity, but because this guy did it privately, he must be imprisoned. I see it as very hypocritical.
I'd rather see a doctrine that a violation of US law must be committed on US soil to be prosecutable.
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