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Russian Court Rejects Brittney Griner’s Appeal of 9-Year Prison Sentence 

HeadlineOct 25, 2022

A Russian court has rejected an appeal by WNBA basketball star Brittney Griner, who was sentenced in August to nine years in a penal colony after she pleaded guilty to carrying a small amount of marijuana into Russia. Griner was arrested at the Moscow airport in February when customs officials found vape cartridges containing a small amount of cannabis oil in her luggage.

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