JUST IN: A Russian judge issue has found WNBA star Brittney Griner guilty after a trial over drug possession with major geopolitical implications.
Griner said Yekaterinburg, a city east of the Ural Mountains, had become her “second home.”
Lawyers for the Phoenix Mercury center and two-time Olympic gold medalist have pursued strategies to bolster Griner's contention that she had no criminal intent and that the canisters ended up in her luggage due to hasty packing. They have presented character witnesses from the Russian team that she plays for in the WNBA offseason and written testimony from a doctor who said he prescribed her cannabis for pain treatment.
Blagovolina asked the court to acquit Griner, noting that she had no past criminal record and hailing her role in"the development of Russian basketball." Boykov added that even after her arrest, Griner won the sympathy of both her guards and prison inmates, who supported her by shouting, “Brittney, everything will be OK!” when she went on walks at the jail.
Then last week, in an extraordinary move, Blinken spoke to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, urging him to accept a deal under which Griner and Paul Whelan, an American imprisoned in Russia on an espionage conviction, would go free.
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