The WNBA star took part in the Moscow Regional Court hearing via video call from a penal colony outside Moscow where she is imprisoned.
MOSCOW — A Russian court on Tuesday upheld the nine-year prison sentence handed to American basketball star Brittney Griner for drug possession, rejectingGriner, an eight-time all-star center with the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury and a two-time Olympic gold medalist,after police said they found vape canisters containing cannabis oil in her luggage at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport.
WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner is seen on a TV screen as she waits to appear in a video link provided by the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service a courtroom prior to a hearing at the Moscow Regional Court in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022. A Russian court on Tuesday started hearing American basketball star Brittney Griner’s appeal against her nine-year prison sentence for drug possession.
The nine-year sentence was close to the maximum of 10 years, and Griner’s lawyers argued after the conviction that the punishment was excessive. They said in similar cases defendants have received an average sentence of about five years, with about a third of them granted parole. WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner is seen on the bottom part of a TV screen as she waits to appear in a video link provided by the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service a courtroom prior to a hearing at the Moscow Regional Court in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022.
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