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Brittney Griner's lawyers appeal her Russian prison sentence

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Nine year sentence
Brittney Griner’s legal team announced on Monday that an appeal has been filed over her nine-year prison sentence on the charge of drug smuggling. The WNBA star was traveling to Yekaterinburg, in western Russia, to play for a local team during the off-season.
In February, Griner was in a Moscow airport in route to Yekaterinburg and arrested for carrying vape cartridges containing cannabis oil found during a search of her bags. She pleaded guilty but begged the court for leniency. She could have been sentenced up to ten years in prison. Griner’s story all along has been that she packed the cartridges by mistake. She also has used the excuse that her doctor in the United States prescribed medical marijuana for her to help with pain from injuries sustained in her basketball career.

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