Moscow court upholds Brittney Griner's drug-smuggling conviction

[Canon Shooter]

She's the victim of the totally corrupt Russian legal system.

A pawn the Russians can use seeking a prisoner trade.

Oh, horseshit.

Russia didn't make her break the law...

 

[Care4all]

From CNN's Anna Chernova
The Moscow Regional Court has left US basketball star Brittney Griner's verdict in place, upholding the earlier decision from the Khimki city court, which means that Griner's conviction for smuggling drugs into the country will stand.


Griner's sentence of nine years in prison will be slightly decreased, as the judge ruled to count the time spent in custody since Feb. 17. Each day Griner spent in pre-trial detention will count as 1.5 days toward her prison sentence, the judge ruled. It is not yet clear exactly how much that will reduce her sentence.


The outcome means the "legal process will be basically over," one of Griner's lawyers, Alexander Boykov of the Moscow Legal Center, previously told CNN.


Griner was initially taken into custody at a Moscow airport days before the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine when authorities accused her of trying to smuggle less than a gram of cannabis oil in her luggage. She plays in Russia during the WNBA's offseason.


The All-Star center for the Phoenix Mercury pleaded guilty to drug charges, telling the court during her trial that vape cartridges containing the cannabis oil were in her luggage because she had packed her bags in a hurry.

Brittney Griner's 9-Year Prison Sentence Upheld in Russian Court After Appeal


It would be so awesome if Russia legalized Marijuana the day after she was released.

This is just so unreal, for so little in her possession....it's hard to even fathom!

My husband is a disabled vet and has lots of pains to deal with, and a gazillion prescriptions for it that he was worried about ruining his kidneys and liver with. So, he is a medical marijuana user now, but not smoking....cannabis oil put under the tongue....what Riner had.... all combined, she had 0.7 grams....

My husband gets a one ounce small bottle at a time, with an eye dropper.

The small, one ounce bottle has 28 grams in it.

She only had 0.7 grams.... Holy smokes! 9 years for what amount is probably left in the bottom of the bottle the hubby throws away!

It likely wouldn't even be a criminal offense in the strongest marijuana laws state!

 

[marvin martian]

I didn't say she didn't.

But if one drug smuggler got 18 years for smuggling a lot of drugs, and she smuggled less than 1/1,000th that much. How does that justify 9 years.

Just on a linear basis, if he got 18 years, she should have been sentenced to 25 seconds in jail.

The lesson is don't fuck around with the laws in countries that aren't known for fair treatment of the accused.

She'd probably be getting better treatment if Joe Biden hadn't started a war with Russia to protect his money laundering operation.

 

[JGalt]

Get off your knees and wipe your chin, it's embarrassing to watch.

Once again, Biden is a failure. Trump would have negotiated a release by now.

The Biden List:

• Gasoline that rose 3 times the price it was during 2018, depending on location

• Ending US Keystone XL pipeline while waiving sanctions on Russia's Nord Stream 2 pipeline

• The price of oil jumping up to $130 per barrel

• Draining our own Strategic Oil Reserve to the lowest level since 1984

• Having to beg Saudi Arabia and Venezuela for oil

• Inflation rate that rose as high as 9.1%, which was almost 5 times higher than it was in 2019

• A recession

• The average middle-class family coming up about $6,000 short of purchasing power

• The DOW dropping 6,700 points in only a year

• The stock market losing $9 trillion dollars worth of value in only two years

• Retirement accounts losing $3 trillion dollars

• 30 year fixed mortgages rising by 4.43% in only two years, to 7.15%

• Home prices soaring 43% in only two years and housing sales slumping

• Median asking rent prices rising 79.7% in only two years

• Hefty tax increases on the lower and middle class

• 84,000 new IRS agents arming and training to be home invaders

• Use of DOJ and FBI to harass political opponents

• Conducting covert raids on American citizens and confiscating personal property

• Supply line disruptions, backorders, items out of stock or unavailable

• Sporadic shortages on grocery store shelves

• Food-processing plants mysteriously burning down

• Continuing monumental trade deficit with China

• More COVID deaths than in 2020

• Massive job losses from vaccine mandates

• An exponentially-spiraling epidemic of violent crime and drugs

• Fentanyl seizures up 745 percent

• 120% increase in opioid deaths in just two years

• 4.9 million illegals crossing US border within only two years

• 900,000 "gotaways" who eluded apprehension and disappeared into American communities

• Record numbers of illegals dying while crossing the border

• Border Patrol arrests 98 who were on the terror watch list in 2022, 3X the last 5 years combined

• A dishonorable withdrawal from Afghanistan that cost 13 American soldiers their lives

• $7.12 billion worth of US military equipment and weaponry left to the Taliban

• Hundreds of US citizens and Afghans left behind in Afghanistan after the withdrawal

• People falling out of the wheel wells of aircraft leaving Afghanistan

• A weakened US military that's more concerned with "political correctness" than creating soldiers

• Record low enlistment numbers

• A revitalized Russian oil industry, despite US sanctions

• A war in Ukraine that has cost the US billions of dollars and killed thousands

• Increased possibility of nuclear war with Russia

• Iran expanding their nuclear enrichment program

• China becoming energy and militarily dominant

• A senile, angry, and incompetent president who falls off of a bicycle, falls up stairs, insults
half the people in America, labels people as "terrorists", divides the country, and tries to incite
a civil war.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

And then...................................no one cared.