US basketballer sentenced in Russia to nine years in prison

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BREAKING: A judge in Russia has convicted American basketball star Brittney Griner of drug possession and smuggling and sentenced her to nine years in prison. 9News READ MORE:

basketball star Brittney Griner of drug possession and smuggling and sentenced her to nine years in prison.

Griner reacted to the sentence with little emotion. She listened to the verdict from the defendant's cage, a blank stare on her face.WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner speaks to her lawyers from within a cage in a courtroom in Khimki just outside Moscow, Russia. Attention now turns to the possibility of a high-stakes prisoner swap that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken proposed to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.Under the proposed deal, Griner and Paul Whelan, an American imprisoned in Russia on an espionage conviction, would go free.

 

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She broke the law so has to now pay the toll

Maybe she should ring Sleepy Joe and ask how he manages to protect Hunter from prison

Does she think she is above the Law? Typical Democrat

Oh well.

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