{"id":9538,"date":"2022-08-07T07:39:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T07:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2022\/08\/07\/wnbas-brittney-griner-convicted-at-drug-trial-sentenced-to-9-years\/135795\/"},"modified":"2022-08-07T07:39:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T07:39:10","slug":"wnbas-brittney-griner-convicted-at-drug-trial-sentenced-to-9-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wnbas-brittney-griner-convicted-at-drug-trial-sentenced-to-9-years\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA&#8217;s Brittney Griner convicted at drug trial, sentenced to 9 years"},"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\/wnbas-brittney-griner-convicted-at-drug-trial-sentenced-to-9-years\/\" 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\/Russia_Griner_96318-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wnbas-brittney-griner-convicted-at-drug-trial-sentenced-to-9-years.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wnbas-brittney-griner-convicted-at-drug-trial-sentenced-to-9-years-2.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>By JIM HEINTZ<\/p>\n<p>KHIMKI, Russia (AP) \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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2022\/08\/04\/wnbas-griner-convicted-at-drug-trial-sentenced-to-9-years\/\">Read the rest of this story on BostonHerald.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related Articles By JIM HEINTZ KHIMKI, Russia (AP) \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. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8232,9,7720,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[8234,7743],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538"}],"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=9538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}