{"id":12772,"date":"2022-10-26T10:39:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T10:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/?p=12772"},"modified":"2022-10-26T10:39:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T10:39:05","slug":"russian-court-rejects-wnba-star-brittney-griners-appeal-to-reduce-her-9-year-jail-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/russian-court-rejects-wnba-star-brittney-griners-appeal-to-reduce-her-9-year-jail-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Court Rejects Griner\u2019s Appeal To Reduce Her 9 Year Jail Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/brittney-griner-looking-shocked-whilst-being-taken-to-a-russian-court.jpg\" alt=\"Brittney Griner looking shocked whilst being taken to a Russian court\" title=\"Russian Court Rejects WNBA Star Brittney Griner\u2019s Appeal To Reduce Her 9 Year Jail Term\" width=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12774\" \/><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brittney Griner appealed her 9 year prison sentence on Oct 25<\/li>\n<li>A Moscow Court rejected her appeal and upheld her prison sentence<\/li>\n<li>U.S government calls the appeal another sham judicial proceeding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/sports-betting\/basketball\">basketball<\/a> star <strong>Brittney Griner<\/strong> celebrated her 32nd birthday in a Russian jail cell after she was sentenced earlier this year to a 9 year prison sentence for bringing in vape containers that had hashish oil which is illegal in Russia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/brittney-griner-prepares-for-appeal-hearing-on-oct-25-in-russia\/\">Griner decided to appeal the 9 year prison term<\/a> with her legal representative <strong>Lindsay Colas<\/strong> set for a hearing to be heard for October 26. <\/p>\n<p>During the virtual hearing, <strong>Griner begged the court to be lenient towards her and reduce her jail time<\/strong>. This was the second time that Griner had decided to appeal the mercy of the Russian court.<\/p>\n<p>The first time she did this was back in July when she pleaded guilty to bringing in drugs into the Sheremetyevo International Airport in Khimki on Feb 17. Griner informed the courts that she <strong>did not intentionally smuggle drugs but brought it on her for personal use<\/strong> since vaping hashish oil is legal in many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/us\/states\">states in America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mo_jy8yZhI4?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Griner <strong>decided to plead guilty instead of fight the charges<\/strong> as she was informed Russian courts were more lenient to those who plead guilty. However, she ended up getting a harsh prison sentence of 9 years. During her second appeal on Oct 25, Griner and her defense informed the courts that there were a number of other individuals who committed lesser offenses and were handed out shorter sentences. <\/p>\n<p>Griner told the court that <strong>she was traumatized and would really like to go back to America and be with her family<\/strong>. However, the <strong>court decided to ignore her pleas and defense and uphold the 9 year prison sentence<\/strong> much to her disappointment. <\/p>\n<h2>U.S Gov. Labels It A Sham Judicial Proceeding <\/h2>\n<p>Lindsay Colas said that the decision to uphold the 9 year prison sentence was disappointing but not surprising as they suspect that Russia is using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnba.com\">WNBA<\/a> star as a political pawn against the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S Government who is carefully following the Griner case released a statement soon after the Russian court upheld the 9 year prison term. <strong>Jake Sullivan<\/strong> who is the National Security Advisor for the Biden Government called it another sham judicial proceeding!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Brittney Griner appealed her 9 year prison sentence on Oct 25 A Moscow Court rejected her appeal and upheld her prison sentence U.S government calls the appeal another sham judicial proceeding The basketball star Brittney Griner celebrated her 32nd birthday in a Russian jail cell after she was sentenced earlier this year to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation","category-sports","category-usa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Russian Court Rejects Griner\u2019s Appeal To Reduce Her 9 Year Jail Term<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Griner had decided to appeal the 9 year prison term and was hoping for a softer sentence ... things did not turn they way she hoped\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/russian-court-rejects-wnba-star-brittney-griners-appeal-to-reduce-her-9-year-jail-term\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Russian Court Rejects Griner\u2019s Appeal To Reduce Her 9 Year Jail Term\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Griner had decided to appeal the 9 year prison term and was hoping for a softer sentence ... things did not turn they way she hoped\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/russian-court-rejects-wnba-star-brittney-griners-appeal-to-reduce-her-9-year-jail-term\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-10-26T10:39:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/brittney-griner-looking-shocked-whilst-being-taken-to-a-russian-court.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Landon Wheeler\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Landon Wheeler\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/russian-court-rejects-wnba-star-brittney-griners-appeal-to-reduce-her-9-year-jail-term\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/russian-court-rejects-wnba-star-brittney-griners-appeal-to-reduce-her-9-year-jail-term\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Landon Wheeler\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7735831f7fb7440b065c8376a41cf88d\"},\"headline\":\"Russian Court Rejects Griner\u2019s Appeal To Reduce Her 9 Year Jail Term\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-26T10:39:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/russian-court-rejects-wnba-star-brittney-griners-appeal-to-reduce-her-9-year-jail-term\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":393,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/russian-court-rejects-wnba-star-brittney-griners-appeal-to-reduce-her-9-year-jail-term\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/10\\\/brittney-griner-looking-shocked-whilst-being-taken-to-a-russian-court.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Legislation\",\"Sports\",\"USA\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/russian-court-rejects-wnba-star-brittney-griners-appeal-to-reduce-her-9-year-jail-term\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/russian-court-rejects-wnba-star-brittney-griners-appeal-to-reduce-her-9-year-jail-term\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/russian-court-rejects-wnba-star-brittney-griners-appeal-to-reduce-her-9-year-jail-term\\\/\",\"name\":\"Russian Court Rejects Griner\u2019s Appeal To Reduce Her 9 Year Jail Term\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/russian-court-rejects-wnba-star-brittney-griners-appeal-to-reduce-her-9-year-jail-term\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/russian-court-rejects-wnba-star-brittney-griners-appeal-to-reduce-her-9-year-jail-term\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/10\\\/brittney-griner-looking-shocked-whilst-being-taken-to-a-russian-court.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-26T10:39:05+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7735831f7fb7440b065c8376a41cf88d\"},\"description\":\"Griner had decided to appeal the 9 year prison term and was hoping for a softer sentence ... things did not turn they way she hoped\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/russian-court-rejects-wnba-star-brittney-griners-appeal-to-reduce-her-9-year-jail-term\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/russian-court-rejects-wnba-star-brittney-griners-appeal-to-reduce-her-9-year-jail-term\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/10\\\/brittney-griner-looking-shocked-whilst-being-taken-to-a-russian-court.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/10\\\/brittney-griner-looking-shocked-whilst-being-taken-to-a-russian-court.jpg\",\"width\":380,\"height\":250,\"caption\":\"Brittney Griner looking shocked whilst being taken to a Russian court\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7735831f7fb7440b065c8376a41cf88d\",\"name\":\"Landon Wheeler\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/46a3d81b7d342ca0efc5534703b4ff788fb760adae2a0a1be536a2b1a075d464?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/46a3d81b7d342ca0efc5534703b4ff788fb760adae2a0a1be536a2b1a075d464?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/46a3d81b7d342ca0efc5534703b4ff788fb760adae2a0a1be536a2b1a075d464?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Landon Wheeler\"},\"description\":\"All things casino related are what interests Landon, and having been involved in that industry for the last thirty years and having actually worked in several different roles in the casino industry he is definitely very well placed to keep you in the know in regards to what is happening in the casino industry as a whole.\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/author\\\/landon-wheeler\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Russian Court Rejects Griner\u2019s Appeal To Reduce Her 9 Year Jail Term","description":"Griner had decided to appeal the 9 year prison term and was hoping for a softer sentence ... things did not turn they way she hoped","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/russian-court-rejects-wnba-star-brittney-griners-appeal-to-reduce-her-9-year-jail-term\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Russian Court Rejects Griner\u2019s Appeal To Reduce Her 9 Year Jail Term","og_description":"Griner had decided to appeal the 9 year prison term and was hoping for a softer sentence ... things did not turn they way she hoped","og_url":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/russian-court-rejects-wnba-star-brittney-griners-appeal-to-reduce-her-9-year-jail-term\/","article_published_time":"2022-10-26T10:39:05+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/brittney-griner-looking-shocked-whilst-being-taken-to-a-russian-court.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Landon Wheeler","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Landon Wheeler"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/russian-court-rejects-wnba-star-brittney-griners-appeal-to-reduce-her-9-year-jail-term\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/russian-court-rejects-wnba-star-brittney-griners-appeal-to-reduce-her-9-year-jail-term\/"},"author":{"name":"Landon Wheeler","@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/7735831f7fb7440b065c8376a41cf88d"},"headline":"Russian Court Rejects Griner\u2019s Appeal To Reduce Her 9 Year Jail Term","datePublished":"2022-10-26T10:39:05+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/russian-court-rejects-wnba-star-brittney-griners-appeal-to-reduce-her-9-year-jail-term\/"},"wordCount":393,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/russian-court-rejects-wnba-star-brittney-griners-appeal-to-reduce-her-9-year-jail-term\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/brittney-griner-looking-shocked-whilst-being-taken-to-a-russian-court.jpg","articleSection":["Legislation","Sports","USA"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/russian-court-rejects-wnba-star-brittney-griners-appeal-to-reduce-her-9-year-jail-term\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/russian-court-rejects-wnba-star-brittney-griners-appeal-to-reduce-her-9-year-jail-term\/","url":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/russian-court-rejects-wnba-star-brittney-griners-appeal-to-reduce-her-9-year-jail-term\/","name":"Russian Court Rejects Griner\u2019s Appeal To Reduce Her 9 Year Jail Term","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/russian-court-rejects-wnba-star-brittney-griners-appeal-to-reduce-her-9-year-jail-term\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/russian-court-rejects-wnba-star-brittney-griners-appeal-to-reduce-her-9-year-jail-term\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/brittney-griner-looking-shocked-whilst-being-taken-to-a-russian-court.jpg","datePublished":"2022-10-26T10:39:05+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/7735831f7fb7440b065c8376a41cf88d"},"description":"Griner had decided to appeal the 9 year prison term and was hoping for a softer sentence ... things did not turn they way she hoped","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/russian-court-rejects-wnba-star-brittney-griners-appeal-to-reduce-her-9-year-jail-term\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/russian-court-rejects-wnba-star-brittney-griners-appeal-to-reduce-her-9-year-jail-term\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/brittney-griner-looking-shocked-whilst-being-taken-to-a-russian-court.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/brittney-griner-looking-shocked-whilst-being-taken-to-a-russian-court.jpg","width":380,"height":250,"caption":"Brittney Griner looking shocked whilst being taken to a Russian court"},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/","name":"","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/7735831f7fb7440b065c8376a41cf88d","name":"Landon Wheeler","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/46a3d81b7d342ca0efc5534703b4ff788fb760adae2a0a1be536a2b1a075d464?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/46a3d81b7d342ca0efc5534703b4ff788fb760adae2a0a1be536a2b1a075d464?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/46a3d81b7d342ca0efc5534703b4ff788fb760adae2a0a1be536a2b1a075d464?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g","caption":"Landon Wheeler"},"description":"All things casino related are what interests Landon, and having been involved in that industry for the last thirty years and having actually worked in several different roles in the casino industry he is definitely very well placed to keep you in the know in regards to what is happening in the casino industry as a whole.","url":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/author\/landon-wheeler\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}