{"id":9537,"date":"2022-08-07T07:49:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T07:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2022\/08\/07\/wnba-star-brittney-griner-sentenced-to-9-years-in-russian-drug-trial\/135798\/"},"modified":"2022-08-07T07:49:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T07:49:56","slug":"wnba-star-brittney-griner-sentenced-to-9-years-in-russian-drug-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wnba-star-brittney-griner-sentenced-to-9-years-in-russian-drug-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA star Brittney Griner sentenced to 9 years in Russian drug trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wnba-star-brittney-griner-sentenced-to-9-years-in-russian-drug-trial\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AP22216432937657-560x374.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wnba-star-brittney-griner-sentenced-to-9-years-in-russian-drug-trial.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AP22216546855580-560x374.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wnba-star-brittney-griner-sentenced-to-9-years-in-russian-drug-trial-1.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wnba-star-brittney-griner-sentenced-to-9-years-in-russian-drug-trial-3.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-website yarpp-template-yarpp-template-inarticle-right\">\n<aside class=\"article-related right\">\n<h3>Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>KHIMKI, Russia \u2014 U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner was convicted Thursday in Russia of drug possession and smuggling and was sentenced to nine years behind bars in a politically charged case that could lead to a high-stakes prisoner exchange between Washington and Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Griner, a two-time U.S. Olympic champion and a eight-time all-star with the WNBA\u2019s Phoenix Mercury, listened with a blank expression as an interpreter translated the verdict by Judge Anna Sotnikova, but her lawyers said later she was \u201cvery upset.\u201d Griner also was fined 1 million rubles, about $16,700.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Joe Biden denounced the sentence as \u201cunacceptable.\u201d Griner\u2019s conviction come amid soaring tensions between the U.S. and Russia over Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2022\/08\/04\/wnba-star-brittney-griner-sentenced-to-9-years-in-russian-drug-trial\/\">Read the rest of this story on BostonHerald.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related Articles KHIMKI, Russia \u2014 U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner was convicted Thursday in Russia of drug possession and smuggling and was sentenced to nine years behind bars in a politically charged case that could lead to a high-stakes prisoner exchange between Washington and Moscow. The 31-year-old Griner, a two-time U.S. Olympic champion and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8232,9,7720,5113,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[8234,7743,5114],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}